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Despite layoffs of a few hundred employees in its healthcare units, Amazon continues to hire for those businesses.

Healthcare is facing significant challenges, including rising costs, inconsistent quality and unequal access, but collaboration between retailers and health systems could be a powerful solution to tackle these issues, according to a recent Harvard Business Review article. 

Amazon is planning to close some corporate One Medical offices, as well as move its chief financial officer into a new role, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Becker's. 

From striking a partnership with Allina Health to launching a new telehealth service, here are five updates on Optum that Becker's has reported since Jan. 23: 

Google Health has a job opening for a health equity clinical specialist to serve as the company's expert in health equity and social determinants of health.

Amazon is learning that healthcare is "complicated," as one health system leader told Becker's.

Optum Ventures, the venture capital arm of Optum, backed a $70 million series B funding round for Ambience Healthcare, a company that creates AI operating systems for healthcare organizations. 

Verily, a precision health technology company owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, has named Myoung Cha as its new chief product officer.

Amazon is eliminating a few hundred roles at One Medical and in its online pharmacy unit Amazon Pharmacy, Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, confirmed to Becker's. 

Best Buy has been making big moves in healthcare, providing remote patient monitoring technology to health systems. Here are nine healthcare jobs the tech retailer is hiring for this month.