Disruptors

Apple continues to aggressively hire for healthcare jobs focused on enhancing the health features of its devices. 

Verily, the precision health technology company associated with Alphabet, has named Andrew Trister, MD, PhD, former founding member of Apple's Health team, as its new chief scientific officer. 

Amazon Clinic, Amazon's virtual care offering, isn't providing telehealth services to customers; instead, it works to connect patients with providers such as Curai Health, Hello Alpha, SteadyMD and Wheel, CNBC reported Aug. 1. 

Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business. Below are three open positions as of Aug. 1:

Amazon is launching its virtual care platform, Amazon Clinic, across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Amazon Web Services said it will make tweaks to its new clinical documentation tool, AWS HealthScribe, based on feedback to ensure it is working "at scale," CNBC reported July 26.  

Apple has filed a patent for technology that would allow AirPods to track brain activity in another move in the healthcare wearables race for the tech giant.

Walgreens Boots Alliance has named Manmohan Mahajan its new interim global chief financial officer, as its current executive vice president and global chief financial officer, James Kehoe, is set to leave the company in August. 

IBM is collaborating with the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy to build a new digital platform that can bring visibility to the drug supply chain. 

Healthcare disruptors such as Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft are creating new software products and services integrated with generative artificial intelligence that are aiming to tackle healthcare's biggest burdens — clinician documentation and making sense of healthcare data.