In 2022, the tech industry cut 150,000 jobs, compared to the 80,000 tech workers laid off during the COVID-19 shutdown in March to December of 2020, The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 3.

Amazon cleared a regulatory hurdle on its path to acquiring One Medical, according to The Seattle Times.

From major acquisitions to dealing with the pharmacist burnout crisis, CVS had a busy 2022. Here the five biggest CVS stories Becker's covered in 2022:

Walmart has emerged as a massive healthcare disruptor and the retail giant made some major healthcare moves in 2022.

Paul Black, the former chief operating officer of Cerner, has invested in Kansas City-based medtech startup Community CareLink, the Kansas City Business Journal reported Dec. 28.

Healthcare disruptors had a busy 2022 as major firms, such as Amazon, entered the healthcare space through mergers and acquisitions. 

GE Healthcare is set to disrupt 2023 as the General Electric business unit plans to spin off into an independent company in the first week of January. In preparation for the spinoff, GE Healthcare had a busy 2022.

Mass layoffs dominated the tech news cycle in 2022. However, a survey from ZipRecruiter found that 79 percent of laid-off tech workers were able to find a new job within three months of beginning their search, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 27.

Johnson & Johnson has acquired medtech company Abiomed for $16.6 billion at $380 per share. Abiomed will now operate as a business unit within J&J's medtech segment.

From the departure of PillPack co-founders to losing its manager of healthcare, Amazon has lost several executives leading its various healthcare ventures.

Fujifilm is acquiring Inspirata, a Florida-based digital pathology business.

Google is working to develop an AI-based tool that can read prescriptions made in physicians' handwriting, TheVerge reported Dec. 19. 

Amazon continues to grow its healthcare business, even as the tech giant pulls back in other areas.

Amazon continued a heavy push into healthcare in 2022, pledging to spend billions of dollars to advance into the sector and launching new health products (even as it discontinued others). 

GE Healthcare and Siemens Healthineers AG are among the parties eyeing a potential acquisition of recently spun off Medtronic patient-monitoring and respiratory intervention business units that could be valued at more than $7 billion, Bloomberg reported Dec. 7.

Recent moves from CVS and Walgreens show that the pharmacy retail giants are making leaps into healthcare spaces they've never touched — but hospitals aren't sweating yet.

Microsoft has been making headway in the healthcare industry through partnerships with hospitals and health systems.

From completing its $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance to partnering with some of the largest hospitals and health systems, Microsoft is continuing its push into the healthcare industry. 

Three senior vice presidents at software giant VMware are leaving the company as Broadcom looks to acquire the company for $61 billion, The Wall Street Journal first reported Dec. 12.

Microsoft held onto the top spot and Apple finished second, but technology companies slipped in the Drucker Institute's "250 Best-Managed Companies of 2022" rankings, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 12.