GE HealthCare, which completed its spinoff from General Electric on Jan. 4, said fourth quarter revenue was about $4.9 billion. 

Hospital and health system digital and innovation chiefs told Becker's they're excited about the potential of GE's healthcare spinoff to advance the industry's digital transformation and said they envision plenty of partnership opportunities.

Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business. Below are five open positions as of Jan. 10:

Primary care disruptor VillageMD, which is majority owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance, has appointed Stuart Levine, MD, as its president of value-based care. 

CVS Health is in talks with Oak Street Health, which runs primary care centers for Medicare recipients, about a possible acquisition, Bloomberg reported Jan. 9. 

Virgin Pulse, the digital health arm of conglomerate Virgin Group, named former CVS Health leader Jeffrey Jacques, MD, as its chief medical officer.

CVS Health has been making moves to further its ambitions of becoming a healthcare destination; most notably, it closed its $8 billion acquisition of Signify Health giving the company access to more than 10,000 clinicians.

Primary care disruptor Carbon Health has laid off more than 200 employees, CEO Eren Bali wrote on Twitter.

The former chief digital health and analytics officer of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health has joined GE's new healthcare spinoff as its first chief technology officer.

The new year began with a bang for GE HealthCare.

Johnson & Johnson filed an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its consumer health unit, Kenvue, moving closer toward a spinoff, Bloomberg reported Jan. 4.

Big tech layoffs at Twitter, Amazon and Meta grabbed headlines in 2022; the trend is continuing in 2023 as large tech firms continue to deal with an uncertain economic environment.

Amazon said it plans to cut 18,000 jobs, a bigger number than the e-retailer initially said it would eliminate last year.

Google and DeepMind are lauching MedPaLM, an open-sourced large language model that exclusively addresses medical queries, Tech Times reported Jan. 4. 

Walgreens Boots Alliance reported a $3.7 billion net loss in the first quarter of the 2023 fiscal year ending Nov. 30, a significant drop from $3.6 billion in net income over the same period last year, driven by after-tax charges for opioid-related claims and litigation.

Fifty-two percent of health tech experts surveyed by Health Tech Nerds, an informational platform focusing on healthcare business, said Amazon would be the biggest threat to health systems' core business in 2023.

Software giant Salesforce is cutting nearly 10 percent of its workforce after a COVID-19-fueled hiring boom that saw the company nearly triple its workforce in the past four years, Bloomberg reported Jan. 4.

Amazon obtained an $8 billion unsecured loan after a challenging year in 2022, according to Reuters.

Healthcare company Viatris closed its $415 million acquisition of Oyster Point Pharma and its $280 million acquisition of Famy Life Sciences. 

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