Healthcare DIVE May 3, 2019
Dive Brief:
- Amazon’s entry into healthcare is welcome but unlikely to kick off any huge system-wide change, according to the executive vice president and chief policy and external affairs officer of CVS Health.
- “They are very good at testing and learning,” CVS EVP Tom Moriarty told Healthcare Dive at the Association of Healthcare Journalists annual conference Friday. “We don’t discount them.”
- Moriarty, along with Humana Chief Medical Officer William Shrank and UnitedHealth Group Enterprise executive vice president Austin Pittman, contend they welcome Amazon into the healthcare arena, and said there are enough problems to solve within the $3.5 trillion health economy.
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