Becker's Healthcare September 16, 2022
Laura Dyrda

Nontraditional healthcare companies are digging deeper into healthcare delivery with acquisitions and partnerships. Health systems have to keep an eye on the disrupters and respond in the best way possible for patient care.

Amazon entered into an agreement to acquire One Medical, a virtual and in-person primary care platform, for $3.9 billion earlier this year. CVS Health shortly thereafter succeeded in signing an agreement to acquire home health company Signify Health for $8 billion. Walmart, Google and more continue to make partnerships and acquisitions strengthening healthcare and technology offerings.

Even though Amazon recently announced it would shutter its virtual care service Amazon Care, the initiative was hardly a failure.

Amazon typically experiments a lot when entering a new arena to...

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