Google is working to develop an AI-based tool that can read prescriptions made in physicians' handwriting, TheVerge reported Dec. 19. 

Amazon continues to grow its healthcare business, even as the tech giant pulls back in other areas.

Amazon continued a heavy push into healthcare in 2022, pledging to spend billions of dollars to advance into the sector and launching new health products (even as it discontinued others). 

GE Healthcare and Siemens Healthineers AG are among the parties eyeing a potential acquisition of recently spun off Medtronic patient-monitoring and respiratory intervention business units that could be valued at more than $7 billion, Bloomberg reported Dec. 7.

Recent moves from CVS and Walgreens show that the pharmacy retail giants are making leaps into healthcare spaces they've never touched — but hospitals aren't sweating yet.

Microsoft has been making headway in the healthcare industry through partnerships with hospitals and health systems.

From completing its $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance to partnering with some of the largest hospitals and health systems, Microsoft is continuing its push into the healthcare industry. 

Three senior vice presidents at software giant VMware are leaving the company as Broadcom looks to acquire the company for $61 billion, The Wall Street Journal first reported Dec. 12.

Microsoft held onto the top spot and Apple finished second, but technology companies slipped in the Drucker Institute's "250 Best-Managed Companies of 2022" rankings, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 12.

Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business. Below are five open positions as of Dec. 12:

Google has been making headway in the healthcare industry through partnerships with hospitals and health systems.

GE Healthcare is looking to cut debt, bring down costs and pursue tuck-in acquisitions after it spins off from GE in January, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 8. 

From entering into an agreement with EHR vendor Epic to helping some of the biggest health systems improve health equity through data, Google is continuing its push into the healthcare industry. 

Steven Shulman, a healthcare executive with ties to VillageMD and CareCentrix, has resigned from Walgreens' board after a spat with other members over whether he was an independent voice, according to a securities filing.

GE Healthcare is projecting mid-single-digit medium-term growth revenue for its healthcare business units ahead of its Jan. 3 spinoff.

Amazon Web Services is working with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Seattle Children's and San Francisco-based UCSF Health to help meet the White House's goal of finding a cure for cancer.

Walmart looks to overhaul healthcare's research system with its new Healthcare Research Institute, Politico reported Dec. 7. 

Amazon has been making headway in the healthcare industry through partnerships with hospitals and health systems.

Amazon will no longer support HIPAA compliance on its Alexa devices after the tech giant had partnered with several healthcare organizations on the tool.

The demise of Haven — a coalition of three big employers aiming to lower the cost of healthcare for their workers — was met with a surprising reaction from Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase: "We want to do this again."