Best Buy credited its healthcare initiatives with improving the company's gross profit rate, according to an Aug. 29 second-quarter earnings report.

Microsoft recently posted two job openings related to its health business. Below are the open positions as of Aug. 30:

New laws expanding pharmacists' scope of practice have spurred Walmart, Walgreens and CVS to roll out patient care options that typically would be available only through a physician's office, Bloomberg reported Aug. 28. 

AI-powered virtual primary care company Curai Health has been added to Amazon Clinic's virtual healthcare marketplace, allowing patients to go through a message-based platform to reach clinicians. 

Google is continuing to expand its use of artificial intelligence technologies in healthcare, and hospitals and health systems have already begun piloting the tech giant's new offerings that focus on eliminating administrative burdens and personalizing the patient experience. 

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

Amazon Clinic launched nationally earlier this year, partially motivated by high consumer demand, according to Forbes.

Satya Nadella, CEO and chair of Microsoft, said its AI technology for healthcare will be developed with "governance and oversight" principles that will ensure "fairness and transparency," The Cap Times reported Aug. 23. 

Three out of five Google Health executives served in hospitals before joining the tech giant's healthcare arm.

UnitedHealth Group's Optum and its subsidiaries reportedly have been laying off employees, including registered nursing positions at nearly 150 of its urgent care facilities.

As Microsoft further integrates its artificial intelligence tools within Epic, it is also broadening its reach with large health systems across the country.

Amazon's most recent healthcare initiative is focused on price transparency and tiers pricing for healthcare services based on convenience and quality, according to Forbes.

As Amazon continues its push into healthcare, here are 14 healthcare jobs the tech giant is hiring for this month.

Johnson & Johnson completed a share exchange offer to keep a stake of 9.5 percent of its newly separated consumer health unit, Kenvue, according to an Aug. 21 report from The Philadelphia Business Journal.

Oracle has joined CancerX, a digital health project that is part of the Biden administration's "cancer moonshot" initiative aimed at reducing deaths due to cancer. 

Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business. Below are three open positions as of July 21:

Numerous hospitals, health systems and health tech companies have faced lawsuits during the summer, most pertaining to cybersecurity issues.

IBM will use Microsoft's cloud to create a tool that helps analyze complex medical records.

Healthcare disruptors such as Amazon and CVS are driving up demand — and salaries — for physicians and advanced practitioners, according to executive search firm AMN Healthcare.

As more tech disruptors, such as Amazon and CVS, look to scoop up retail clinics; a report from AMN Healthcare found that 79.6 million American adults, or 30.3 percent of the population, had received care at a retail clinic in 2022.