Motley Fool November 10, 2019
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The e-commerce giant just bought a telemedicine technology startup to help with its healthcare-related efforts.

In what is its first healthcare-related acquisition since spending $753 million in June 2018 to acquire PillPack, Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) inked a deal to buy Health Navigator, a start-up that provides digital triage tools and symptom lookup. The value of the deal was not disclosed.

Amazon intends to offer Health Navigator services to its employees, shedding further light on where the e-commerce giant is heading in the healthcare market.

In late October, Amazon confirmed it purchased Health Navigator, telling CNBC it will fold it into Amazon Care, its new employee healthcare benefit that gives users access to virtual doctors and nurses. The idea is to leverage...

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Topics: Digital Health, Mergers & Acquisitions / JV, Provider, Retailer, Technology, Telehealth, Trends
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