Disruptors

Best Buy closed its acquisition of remote care monitoring platform Current Health for about $400 million, company CEO Corie Barry said during its third-quarter earnings call Nov. 23. 

National pharmacies, retail health clinics, physician practices and trial tech companies are emerging as significant disruptors to the traditional clinical trial delivery model, according to a November PwC report. 

Amazon Cloud CEO Adam Selipsky said the company is going to develop more products catered to specific industries, such as healthcare and telecommunications, to avoid getting too comfortable in broader cloud offerings, Bloomberg reported Nov. 17.

Hilton's U.S. employees who are enrolled in a corporate health plan will have access to Amazon Care in 2022, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed with Becker's.  

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health and Apple partnered to deploy an iPad app that provides medical professionals trauma care insights in real time.

Alex Gorsky, the chair and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, has been elected to serve on Apple's board of directors to guide the technology company's healthcare push.

The Walmart heir and philanthropist Alice Walton has had a keen interest in healthcare reform and has funded a number of initiatives aimed at improving health for the residents of northwest Arkansas, TalkBusiness reported Nov. 9.

Google's parent company, Alphabet, launched Isomorphic Labs, which will use artificial intelligence to accelerate drug discovery, according to a Nov. 4 blog post written by its CEO, Demis Hassabis.

Deborah DiSanzo, president of Best Buy Health, outlined the technology retail company's healthcare strategy at HLTH's 2021 conference.

Kristen Helton, director of Amazon Care, unveiled at HLTH that Amazon Care's in-person services are now live in the Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Va., and Baltimore areas.