Amazon Health: A long play and a search for partners

Amazon (AMZN) notoriously makes industries nervous every time it enters a new space — and healthcare is no different. There’s been a mix of anxiety and relief over the half-dozen years the e-commerce and tech giant has been wading into the industry.

Its first foray — Haven, a joint effort with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway to control healthcare spend for employee benefits, began in 2018 and folded by 2021. But the failure didn’t stop the company from future endeavors. In 2019, it launched Amazon Care, a telehealth and in-person visit platform for its employees, though it ultimately folded in 2022— the same year it launched Amazon Clinic, a telehealth platform to care for 20 common illnesses. In 2018, it...

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