Disruptors

GE Healthcare is set to disrupt 2023 as the General Electric business unit plans to spin off into an independent company in the first week of January. In preparation for the spinoff, GE Healthcare had a busy 2022.

Mass layoffs dominated the tech news cycle in 2022. However, a survey from ZipRecruiter found that 79 percent of laid-off tech workers were able to find a new job within three months of beginning their search, The Wall Street Journal…

Johnson & Johnson has acquired medtech company Abiomed for $16.6 billion at $380 per share. Abiomed will now operate as a business unit within J&J's medtech segment.

From the departure of PillPack co-founders to losing its manager of healthcare, Amazon has lost several executives leading its various healthcare ventures.

Fujifilm is acquiring Inspirata, a Florida-based digital pathology business.

Google is working to develop an AI-based tool that can read prescriptions made in physicians' handwriting, TheVerge reported Dec. 19. 

Amazon continues to grow its healthcare business, even as the tech giant pulls back in other areas.

Amazon continued a heavy push into healthcare in 2022, pledging to spend billions of dollars to advance into the sector and launching new health products (even as it discontinued others). 

GE Healthcare and Siemens Healthineers AG are among the parties eyeing a potential acquisition of recently spun off Medtronic patient-monitoring and respiratory intervention business units that could be valued at more than $7 billion, Bloomberg reported Dec. 7.

Recent moves from CVS and Walgreens show that the pharmacy retail giants are making leaps into healthcare spaces they've never touched — but hospitals aren't sweating yet.