Walmart is planning to open four healthcare centers in the Houston area this month followed by four more in the summer and fall, the Houston Chronicle reported April 2.
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Walgreens-owned VillageMD plans to exit the state of Nevada, where it has six Village Medical clinics.
From conducting layoffs in its One Medical unit to training an AI chatbot to handle incoming patient messages, here are eight of Amazon's healthcare moves reported by Becker's since January:
Verily, a healthcare and life sciences arm of Google parent company Alphabet, has cut jobs.
Amazon continues to hire for its various healthcare businesses. Here are 11 new healthcare job postings from the tech giant in the past month — and what they pay.
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Walgreens' VillageMD sold 11 locations in Rhode Island to medical group management firm Arches Medical Partners.
Google is updating and launching new healthcare AI models ranging from those that can examine medical images to a personal health coaching large language model.
An ongoing clash between UnitedHealthcare and New York City-based Mount Sinai will have effects on some of Amazon's One Medical patients, a spokesperson from One Medical confirmed to Becker's.
Epic Systems, UC San Diego Health, Boston Children's and Cedars-Sinai are launching healthcare-focused apps for Apple's new Vision Pro headset.
Amazon's Alexa has integrated a telehealth and virtual healthcare delivery platform by Hellocare into its software, allowing patients to make calls and seek medical assistance from physicians and nurses through the use of their voice.