Many retail and tech companies have jumped into healthcare with bold ambitions to “disrupt” the industry. Walmart launched health centers in 2019 to offer primary care and urgent care along with telehealth services. Five years later, the retailer announced it was shutting down Walmart Heath. Best Buy spent $400 million to buy care-at-home company Current Health and recently divested it. Microsoft made an unsuccessful foray into personal medical records. Hon Pak, M.D., senior vice president and head of the digital health team at Samsung Electronics, is aware of the challenges other companies have faced when trying to make inroads in healthcare.
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Source: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/why-samsung-bullish-about-its-role-healthcare