Managed Healthcare Executive September 30, 2019
Amazon’s launch of a pilot project called Amazon Care, a virtual primary care clinic, indicates that healthcare executives should be working toward digital transformation, according to one expert.
“On face value, Amazon is providing a telehealth solution to employees,” says Vik Panda, North America managing director for sleep technology company Dreem, based in New York, Paris, and Taipei. “But it is being presented as a pilot, which suggests it could be opened to non-employees, and that this is a test bed for a broader offering.”
Presumably, a virtual clinic may be less expensive than a traditional provider model, according to Panda. “Amazon has room to experiment here because they are self-insured,” he says. “Really, this news represents Amazon as a...
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