Disruptors

From creating digital health collaboratives to inking partnerships with health systems, here are seven most recent healthcare moves from Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft as reported by Becker's Hospital Review since June: 

Amazon's cloud computing service is supporting a health tech company focused on improving health equity as part of a new initiative from the tech giant.

GV, the venture capital arm of Alphabet, spends little time focusing on direct patient care or purely technological healthcare solutions, instead concentrating on hospital infrastructure and intersections with pharma, GV venture partner Ben Robbins, MD, told the American Journal of…

Optum Health and Red Ventures partnered to launch a comprehensive consumer healthcare platform, RVO Health, according to a Moody's Investors Service report.

Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business. Below are seven open positions as of July 11:

Tom Keane, Microsoft's cloud vice president, is leaving the company after 21 years, Bloomberg reported July 6. 

CVS has appointed a new C-suite executive who will oversee the CIO and other tech leaders at the company, The Wall Street Journal reported July 8.

Amazon's chief medical officer for new products Vin Gupta, MD, is in the lead to be the FDA's principal medical adviser, Politico reported July 5. 

Amazon, Microsoft and Google accounted for 65 percent of the $53 billion in global cloud-service spending in the first quarter of 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported July 5. 

Google is in talks to purchase the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago, a move that could transform the city's downtown area, according to a report by commercial real estate information company CoStar.