GE Healthcare and Pointcore, a healthcare management and nonclinical shared services company, entered into a partnership with Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare to help enhance clinical and operational efficiencies, standardize models for care delivery, and enhance patient outcomes.

Despite layoffs of a few hundred employees in its healthcare units, Amazon continues to hire for those businesses.

Healthcare is facing significant challenges, including rising costs, inconsistent quality and unequal access, but collaboration between retailers and health systems could be a powerful solution to tackle these issues, according to a recent Harvard Business Review article. 

Amazon is planning to close some corporate One Medical offices, as well as move its chief financial officer into a new role, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Becker's. 

From striking a partnership with Allina Health to launching a new telehealth service, here are five updates on Optum that Becker's has reported since Jan. 23: 

Google Health has a job opening for a health equity clinical specialist to serve as the company's expert in health equity and social determinants of health.

Amazon is learning that healthcare is "complicated," as one health system leader told Becker's.

Optum Ventures, the venture capital arm of Optum, backed a $70 million series B funding round for Ambience Healthcare, a company that creates AI operating systems for healthcare organizations. 

Verily, a precision health technology company owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, has named Myoung Cha as its new chief product officer.

Amazon is eliminating a few hundred roles at One Medical and in its online pharmacy unit Amazon Pharmacy, Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, confirmed to Becker's. 

Best Buy has been making big moves in healthcare, providing remote patient monitoring technology to health systems. Here are nine healthcare jobs the tech retailer is hiring for this month.

Amazon has redesigned offerings and add-ons for Amazon Prime users, including a $9 per month healthcare supplement, that can obscure the apples-to-apples value of the subscription's price tag. 

Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health said its proposed acquisition by Health Assurance Transformation Corp., or HATCo, a fully owned subsidiary of General Catalyst, will set up the hospital for long-term success, Akron.com reported Feb. 1.

Instacart has partnered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to expand access to nutritious food and resources for improved health. 

Despite its ambitions to become a major healthcare player, 23andMe's valuation is down 98% from its peak and has never turned a profit, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal.

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

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said modern healthcare is "just kind of nutty" and future generations will look back on this time wondering what we were thinking, Fortune reported.

Instacart is partnering with DispatchHealth, a provider of in-home medical care, to give patients receiving home care access to nutritious foods. 

Amazon continues its healthcare hiring as it aims to disrupt the industry. Here are 12 healthcare job openings at the Big Tech company in January.

Amazon Pharmacy is integrating with One Medical to give patients and providers increased access to medication consultations, Forbes reported.