Techonomy June 6, 2017
Lynn O'Connor Vos

“Alexa, call the doctor.”

As of this moment, Amazon’s speech-powered wonder cannot connect you with a physician, but the time is coming. In fact, many of the tech giants that bring us content, commerce, and community, are moving quickly toward an era when they will deliver healthcare to our homes in many different forms.

Word that Amazon is hiring leaders to bring it into the pharmaceutical market surely sent shivers through executive suites at retailers like Walgreens and CVS, which now dominate the 300 billion-dollar-a-year business. From a consumer’s point of view, any sign of a competitor that will bring clarity and cost-cutting to the market is good news. Less well recognized, but even more important, is the fact that...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), CMS, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, HHS, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Precision Medicine, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Retail care, Self-insured, Telehealth, Urgent care
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