Disruptors

Even as it has been laying off tens of thousands of employees, Amazon has pledged to continue pursuing its healthcare business.

Dollar General customers at three locations in Tennessee can now see a healthcare provider in the store's parking lot for preventative care, urgent care and chronic condition management services.

Medtech companies Phillips and Masimo partnered to integrate Philips' patient monitoring ecosystem into the Masimo W1 tracking watch.

Software giant Microsoft is planning to lay off 10,000 workers, or less than 5 percent of the company's workforce, as the company looks to shift priorities amid economic uncertainty, The New York Times reported Jan. 18.

Nestle Health Science, the medical nutrition business unit of Nestle, is investing $43 million to expand its manufacturing facility in Eau Claire, Wis. 

Bayer has entered into an agreement to acquire strategic imaging artificial intelligence platform and solutions provider Blackford Analysis. 

Software giant Microsoft is looking to integrate artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT into all of its products, The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 17.

Amazon Clinic, the online healthcare service launched by Amazon in November, is now offering COVID-19 treatment plans. 

Amazon and Alphabet's healthcare arm Verily said it would let go some of its healthcare employees as an uncertain economy has been causing financial and operational challenges for tech companies. 

CVS Health has named Sam Khichi as the company's new chief policy officer, executive vice president and general counsel.