From partnering with more health systems to testing a generative AI-powered health assistant, here are seven of Amazon’s healthcare moves reported by Becker’s since January:
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CVS Health is investing $20 billion over the next decade to build a more connected, tech-enabled consumer healthcare experience, Yahoo Finance reported June 3. “The No. 1 complaint from customers is the healthcare experience is not integrated,” Tilak Mandadi, CVS…
Amazon Pharmacy is rolling out new features aimed at easing the burden of medication management, particularly for caregivers and older adults with complex prescriptions. In a June 3 press release, Amazon announced that its digital pharmacy platform now allows verified…
Best Buy reported $109 million in charges for the first quarter, primarily tied to the restructuring of its Best Buy Health division. The charges stemmed mainly from asset impairments and other associated costs, according to the company’s earnings report released…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently told shareholders that Amazon One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy are transforming the way Americans experience healthcare. “[People are] not going to believe that we used to have to make a doctor’s appointment many weeks in…
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Amazon continues to hire employees to support its healthcare businesses such as Amazon Pharmacy and One Medical. Here are nine healthcare-related jobs the company is hiring for this month (along with the annual base pay): 1. Senior Manager, Pharmacy Regulatory…
Google continues to aggressively hire for jobs focused on enhancing the health features of its devices. Here are four healthcare-related jobs for which Google is hiring:
Microsoft has added Grok 3 — a large language model developed by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI — to its Azure AI Foundry Models, giving developers access to the tool. Grok 3 became available May 19 for a free…
Cohere Health, a clinical intelligence company, has secured $90 million in Series C funding to accelerate the growth of its clinical intelligence platform for health plans and risk-bearing providers. Here are five things to know:
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has introduced a new evaluation framework to assess how artificial intelligence systems perform in healthcare settings. Here are six things to know about the new tool, called HealthBench: The tool also compares AI responses with…