MDLinx September 17, 2021
Ryan Black

Healthcare offers the challenge and opportunity that big tech companies relish: It’s an industry as profitable as it is antiquated. Amazon is one of the tech giants making major inroads in healthcare, and the company is using a multi-pronged approach to transform the industry.

Will Amazon’s new direct-delivery healthcare model turn patient care on its head?

Though each new move has generated headlines, disruption in healthcare doesn’t happen overnight. But the company’s latest foray may be its most tangible and potentially transformative. According to recent reports, Amazon plans to dramatically scale up its direct-care delivery service, Amazon Care.

Originally available to its own employees and then in select test markets, the program will soon launch in 20...

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Topics: Digital Health, Health IT, Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Retail care, Retailer, Technology, Telehealth
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