Fierce Healthcare January 25, 2024
As Amazon builds out its healthcare business and expands its reach into hybrid primary care, pharmacy operations and virtual care, there are promising opportunities to integrate these services to offer a better healthcare experience.
A year after its big-ticket acquisition of One Medical, Amazon’s pharmacy business is piloting a program to provide pharmacy consultations to One Medical primary care providers with a specific focus on high-risk and complex patients among the older senior population. The pilot started in the fourth quarter of last year, executives said.
“This is a pilot program that I think is pioneering and doesn’t exist nearly enough in outpatient care, especially high-risk patients who are frequently at risk for readmission because they have multiple chronic diseases...