Disruptors

Walgreens Boots Alliance has sold 15.5 million shares of infusion services company Option Care Health at $30.75 per share.

Walmart Health will open 28 new Walmart Health centers by the first quarter of 2024.

Even though it's now owned by a Big Tech company trying to disrupt healthcare, One Medical grew to the point of being acquired by Amazon for billions of dollars under the leadership of several former hospital and health system executives.

The Federal Trade Commission issued a statement Feb. 27 warning Amazon and One Medical that it must keep healthcare data safe and is prohibited from using it for advertising or marketing purposes.

As the artificial intelligence arms race heats up between Big Tech companies, Amazon Web Services is looking to develop more open-source machine learning capabilities through a partnership with Hugging Face, VentureBeat reported Feb. 28.

Apple wants to change the behavior of patients and providers, so they will use its devices and data tools to prevent disease, Sumbul Desai, MD, vice president of Apple Health, told The Hindu Business Line.

Retail giant Walmart and managed care company CareSource are entering a three-year partnership aiming to address racial disparities and health inequities.

Walmart uses a cloud service from Microsoft and VMware to access its Epic EHR instances at every new healthcare clinic it opens.

GE HealthCare is entering a joint venture with state-owned China National Medical Device Co., part of Chinese medical giant Sinopharm, to "develop, manufacture, and commercialize medical equipment to address the growing needs of China's healthcare market," according to a Feb.…

Apple recently posted several job openings related to its health business. Below are seven open positions, as of Feb. 27: