Oracle, SAP and Google Cloud held onto their top spots as the world's fastest-growing cloud providers, Acceleration Economy reported March 8.

Amazon, CVS, Optum, Walgreens and Walmart are all aiming to shift primary care in America, through increased access, virtual care and a focus on value-based care.

Best Buy is partnering with some of the largest U.S. healthcare systems on remote patient monitoring and hospital at home offerings, pushing deeper into the healthcare industry. 

Fifth Third Bank said it will acquire healthcare payments and remittance provider Big Data Healthcare. 

The CEO of One Medical pushed back against data privacy concerns brought up after its $3.9 billion acquisition by Amazon, Medical Device Network reported March 7.

CVS went from one store in 1963 to a $105 billion healthcare behemoth that has thousands of pharmacies, hundreds of clinics and an insurance company — and continues to grow.

Home health company Signify Health has partnered with Cardinal Health to offer home-based clinical and medication management services to patients. 

VillageMD, which is majority owned by Walgreens, has acquired a 30-location medical group in Connecticut as it continues its rapid expansion around the country.

Amazon could look to home-based care or insurance for its next move into healthcare, health system digital and innovation leaders told Becker's.

Apple has filed a patent for a "Body ID" composition scan that could be used for health evaluations, AppleInsider reported.

The FDA has rejected a request from Elon Musk's Neuralink to test its brain chips on humans, according to a March 2 TechCrunch story.

Best Buy has partnered with five of the 10 largest U.S. health systems on remote patient monitoring, according to a March 2 earnings call.

Greg Corrado, senior research director at Google, said the company sees healthcare as one of the greatest industries where artificial intelligence could provide real value, Politico reported March 2. 

GE HealthCare has reached a 10-year, $760 million partnership with healthcare supply chain company Advantus Health Partners to provide GE HealthCare's technology management services to Advantus clients.

Walgreens Boots Alliance has sold 15.5 million shares of infusion services company Option Care Health at $30.75 per share.

Walmart Health will open 28 new Walmart Health centers by the first quarter of 2024.

Even though it's now owned by a Big Tech company trying to disrupt healthcare, One Medical grew to the point of being acquired by Amazon for billions of dollars under the leadership of several former hospital and health system executives.

The Federal Trade Commission issued a statement Feb. 27 warning Amazon and One Medical that it must keep healthcare data safe and is prohibited from using it for advertising or marketing purposes.

As the artificial intelligence arms race heats up between Big Tech companies, Amazon Web Services is looking to develop more open-source machine learning capabilities through a partnership with Hugging Face, VentureBeat reported Feb. 28.

Apple wants to change the behavior of patients and providers, so they will use its devices and data tools to prevent disease, Sumbul Desai, MD, vice president of Apple Health, told The Hindu Business Line.