Becker's Healthcare December 6, 2019
Unconventional healthcare players, including Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart, have made strides in 2019 to enter the market.
Amazon has made waves in recent months with different health ventures, including partnering with an EHR vendor and testing its health plan in a few states, that show the online retail giants potential influence in the market.
Below are 10 updates on Amazon’s healthcare push in recent months:
1. Most recently, Amazon Web Services announced that it will be launching a voice transcription service for physicians, dubbed Amazon Transcribe Medical. The technology transcribes a patient visit and then inputs the text directly into patients’ medical records.
2. Although Amazon acquired PillPack in 2018, it wasn’t until November that Amazon...