Some Medicare Advantage beneficiaries will have coverage for Uber app purchases, including rides to physician visits and healthy foods, due to a new partnership between Optum and Uber.

Amazon Prime customers looking to get a deal on healthcare will have to wait.

Unlike other healthcare disruptors, Walmart isn't partnering with hospitals and health systems. At least not yet.

Mount Sinai Solutions, a division of New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System, is partnering with Instacart to offer post-operative and post-partum patients access to groceries.

Walgreens investors and analysts like the news that the company is close to hiring a CEO with healthcare experience, Bloomberg reported.

Howard Cutler, senior vice president of payer strategies for VillageMD, has left the company for a new role at One Call. 

As Google looks to get employees back into the office, it will expand its suite of on-site wellness centers in 2024, HR Brew reported Oct. 2. 

Walgreens CIO Hsiao Wang is leaving the company just a year after being appointed to the role, Bloomberg reported Oct. 2. 

Microsoft has forged two new strategic partnerships with leading health systems — Mayo Clinic and Mercy — as it aims to use the power of generative artificial intelligence to ease healthcare's administrative burdens. 

As Costco looks to break into healthcare through a new partnership with virtual care company Sesame, Costco CFO Richard Galanti said in a Sept. 26 earnings call that raising the cost of its membership is a 'question of when, not if.'

One professor says Amazon's new ownership of a clinic that serves Hanover, N.H.-based Dartmouth College employees and their families could be the right model to "rethink" primary care, Valley News reported Sept. 27.

Hospital leaders are already taking notice of one of healthcare's newest disruptors: Uber Eats.

Disruptors are turning to virtual care offerings to make healthcare more affordable and accessible to consumers. 

Amazon is making a big bet on generative artificial intelligence — and its use in healthcare — with a $4 billion investment in AI company Anthropic.

Hospital officials told Becker's they don't view Costco's entrance into healthcare as a threat to their business but as an opportunity for expanded care to reach new patients. 

Cheryl Knaut, CEO of Optum's payment integrity, said she plans to retire at the beginning of October. 

Warehouse club company Costco will offer its members $29 virtual primary care visits through a partnership with healthcare marketplace Sesame, Bloomberg reported Sept. 25.

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

Michael Howell, MD, chief clinical officer of Google Health, said in a Sept. 20 JAMA article that AI is going to be tasked with assisting people in things that take them away from the bedside and away from "the cognitive, procedural or emotional work of being a clinician."

Amazon continues to bolster its workforce for its push into healthcare. Here are 11 healthcare-related jobs the tech giant is hiring for this month.