As Walgreens continues to expand Village Medical primary care clinics alongside its retail stores, CEO Roz Brewer detailed where the company has found success during remarks June 13 at the AHIP 2023 conference. 

Walgreens is partnering with medtech company Freenome to advance clinical trials of Freenome's blood tests for early cancer detection.

Newsweek spotlighted 10 health tech innovators for its Great Disruptors series June 14.

Oracle Chair and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison said the company is partnering with AI startup Cohere to develop generative AI services for organizations including healthcare. 

Walmart almost bought online pharmacy PillPack in 2018, but when the retail giant paused talks Amazon swooped in to acquire the startup, Fortune reported June 13.

Oracle Chair and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison's new net worth of $129.8 billion makes him the fourth-richest person in the world, Bloomberg reported June 12. 

Uber Health, the healthcare arm of Uber, will expand and start to offer grocery and over-the-counter pharmacy product delivery to patients. 

Medtronic has named Ken Washington, PhD, the former vice president and general manager of consumer robotics at Amazon, its first chief technology and innovation officer. 

Retail giant Walmart is partnering with diagnostics company Simple HealthKit to offer its testing kits for sale on Walmart.com.

CVS Health's retail clinic, MinuteClinic, received its sixth consecutive Ambulatory Health Care Accreditation from The Joint Commission. 

Peter Lee, MD, global medical director of Amazon, has left the company to join occupational health provider Work Health Solutions. 

Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business. Below are three open positions as of June 9:

Walgreens jettisoned its remaining stake in infusion company Option Care Health for $330 million as it concentrates on its pharmacy and primary care businesses.

Walmart Health opened three new clinics in Jacksonville, Fla., starting June 6 as the company continues its push into retail healthcare, the Florida Times-Union reported.

CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch, the "most powerful woman in business," has a chance to transform healthcare as the leader of the industry's second-largest company, Fortune reported June 7.

Tech giants such as Google and Microsoft are trying their hands at generative AI in healthcare and are partnering with some of the largest hospitals and health systems in the U.S. to see how this new tech can automate tedious tasks for clinicians and to see how it can make searching for patient information easier. 

Amazon subsidiary One Medical has opened its first Connecticut location under a partnership with Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare, HamletHub reported June 7.

Amazon Web Services has partnered with health IT interoperability organization the Interoperability Institute to launch a virtual innovation center aimed at advancing healthcare interoperability.

Microsoft continues to make its push into healthcare and is inking partnerships with some of the largest hospitals and health systems to accelerate its jump into the industry. 

VillageMD has been selected for a two-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health to identify patients with undiagnosed Alzheimer's disease using EHR data.