Becker's Healthcare January 6, 2020
Laura Dyrda

Over the past year, Amazon has made several big partnerships and investments in the healthcare space, which will likely continue into the new decade.

Here are 15 things to know about Amazon’s push into healthcare during 2019 and where they’re headed in 2020.

1. Amazon is among the tech giants making the biggest impact on healthcare, and coupled with its vast number of users and sellers, it can be a fertile testing ground for future healthcare applications, according to CBInsights. The company has around 1.2 million employees in Haven, the Amazon-JPMorgan, Berkshire Hathaway partnership. It also has an estimated 5 million sellers and 310 million active users, including 100 million Amazon Prime members.

2. Haven has been relatively quiet in...

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