Investors Take Note: These Are the Biggest Challenges Facing Healthcare Disruptors

Can Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) new service, Amazon Pharmacy, supplant brick-and-mortar retailers like CVS Health (NYSE: CVS)and Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA)? As it turns out, it's not easy to disrupt the healthcare industry, which is highly regulated and historically slow on the technological uptake. Ruby Gadelrab is CEO and Founder of MDisrupt, a platform that connects digital health companies to the scientists and healthcare industry experts they need to build, commercialize, and scale health products quickly and responsibly. Ruby joined Olivia Zitkus and Corinne Cardina of Fool.com's Healthcare and Cannabis Bureau on a Jan. 22 episode of Fool Live, where she spoke with us about the major challenges facing big and small disruptors in the healthcare sector.

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