From conducting layoffs in its One Medical unit to training an AI chatbot to handle incoming patient messages, here are eight of Amazon's healthcare moves reported by Becker's since January:

Verily, a healthcare and life sciences arm of Google parent company Alphabet, has cut jobs.

Amazon continues to hire for its various healthcare businesses. Here are 11 new healthcare job postings from the tech giant in the past month — and what they pay.

Walgreens' VillageMD sold 11 locations in Rhode Island to medical group management firm Arches Medical Partners. 

Google is updating and launching new healthcare AI models ranging from those that can examine medical images to a personal health coaching large language model. 

An ongoing clash between UnitedHealthcare and New York City-based Mount Sinai will have effects on some of Amazon's One Medical patients, a spokesperson from One Medical confirmed to Becker's.

Epic Systems, UC San Diego Health, Boston Children's and Cedars-Sinai are launching healthcare-focused apps for Apple's new Vision Pro headset. 

Amazon's Alexa has integrated a telehealth and virtual healthcare delivery platform by Hellocare into its software, allowing patients to make calls and seek medical assistance from physicians and nurses through the use of their voice.

Walmart Health has named Ken Silverstein, MD, as vice president of clinical operations.

Apple continues to aggressively hire for healthcare jobs focused on enhancing the health features of its devices. 

Walgreens' VillageMD is laying off some of its employees as it looks to exit the Illinois market, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Becker's. 

Amazon is training an AI chatbot to handle incoming patient messages and address administrative queries for One Medical, former employees told The Washington Post.

Amazon recently announced that it would lay off a few hundred employees at One Medical as well as switch up a leadership position, but One Medical CEO Trent Green told The Washington Post that the moves are not related to the acquisition by Amazon. 

Amgen, a biotech company, has built a $474 million facility in New Albany, Ohio, NBC affiliate WCMH reported Feb. 26.

Health system digital leaders told Becker's that Amazon's $3.9 billion deal for One Medical, which was completed one year ago this month, has already "changed the landscape" of healthcare and altered the way hospitals do business.

Healthcare lags behind other industries in its adoption of artificial intelligence, largely because it lacks training capacity, according to a study commissioned by Amazon Web Services.

GE HealthCare is partnering with health tech company Biofourmis to expand the application of patient monitoring technology from hospitals to the homes of patients.

Amazon completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of virtual and in-person primary care company One Medical on Feb. 22, 2023, and has since been expanding the company's presence in the healthcare industry.

Last March, Walmart Health said it would add 28 locations by the end of 2024 in Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and Kansas City, Mo.

Elon Musk said the first patient who implanted a Neuralink chip into their brain now has the ability to control a computer mouse just by thinking, CNBC reported Feb. 20.