pharmaphorum April 18, 2019
Over the last two years Amazon’s healthcare plans have gone from being a closely guarded secret to underpinning a series of very public deals and product launches, with 2018 proving to be the tipping point.
The year before, all the chatter was focused on the company’s secret healthcare team and the disruptive potential of this, as-yet-unknown, unit. Then all the behind-the-scenes work started paying off.
Twelve months later and the company had made a series of high-profile healthcare appointments, moved into the medical retail sector, made further moves in digital health and established a joint venture with a blue-sky mission.
Keeping up this pace in 2019 would have been surprising, and the company looks to be letting last year’s deals...