Grocery delivery company Instacart has launched Instacart Health to allow healthcare providers to order food and medical supplies for patients as part of their prescribed meal plans or post-hospital discharges.
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Walmart is teaming up with fertility startup Kindbody to offer benefits under its insurance plan that will help its workers expand their families.
Google is working with an addiction treatment center in Ohio as it tries to tackle the opioid crisis, Bloomberg reported Sept. 27.
Humana has better odds than CVS Health of acquiring Cano Health because the insurer already has a right-of-refusal agreement with the company and a huge position in the Medicare Advantage market, according to market researcher Insider Intelligence.
Google Cloud and Fibit are launching a new service that aims to help hospitals gather and interpret data from wearables and fitness trackers.
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Since the launch of its AWS Health Equity Initiative, Amazon Web Services has awarded $14 million in cloud credits to more than 90 organizations with the aim of closing the health equity gap.
Amazon has been advertising job openings for its various healthcare teams. Here are seven health-related jobs the tech giant recently posted.
The co-founders of PillPack plan to leave Amazon, four years after the tech giant acquired the digital pharmacy as part of its initial foray into healthcare, GeekWire reported Sept. 19.
GV, the venture capital arm of Google parent company Alphabet, is among the investors pouring $72.5 million into a company using mitochondrial biology to treat disease.
Sony has partnered with hearing aid manufacturing company WS Audiology Denmark to create an over-the-counter hearing device.