


Physitrack CEO and cofounder Henrik Molin told MobiHealthNews that the company has acquired Physiotools, a Finnish company that got its start selling physical therapy books, but over the years shifted its business toward software, telehealth and other features. and Target Corp., which are now adopting many of the practices Amazon has worked on for years.Physitrack, a London-based provider of digital physical therapy and patient engagement technology, is kicking off an M&A push with news that it has purchased one of its primary competitors. Improving technology means Amazon can stay several steps ahead of brick-and-mortar rivals Walmart Inc. The system is running smoothly on this early August morning, as it mostly does seven days a week at more than 900 Amazon logistics facilities across the U.S.īFI4, located in exurban Kent, Wash., is Amazon’s flagship fulfillment center and regularly hosts senior company leaders-Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy dropped by recently-who want a better understanding of what happens after a shopper clicks “Buy Now.” It was the first facility of its kind capable of processing more than 1 million items a day, three times what was possible at the company’s state-of-the-art warehouses a decade ago. A maze of green lines shows conveyors speeding orders to stations down the line and, ultimately, to waiting delivery trucks. Thousands of blue dots show robots ferrying products around the facility yellow figures that look a little like restroom signs represent the humans who load and unload the robots. Known internally as the quarterback desk, or QB, the command center lets Shobe monitor the intricate workings of a building the size of about 15 footballs fields.

fulfillment center outside Seattle, Evan Shobe positioned himself before a bank of nine computer screens. One recent morning, inside a cavernous Inc.
