GeekWire June 24, 2021
Amazon’s move into healthcare is multifaceted, including COVID-19 testing, its Halo health band and service, cloud services for healthcare and life sciences, and even primary care for its employees.
A major motivation for the company: the sheer size of the healthcare market, and the massive problems to be solved.
“Amazon is a big company now, still with big growth ambitions, and so they need to tackle big markets,” said John Rossman, a former Amazon business leader and the author of The Amazon Way, speaking on a recent episode of GeekWire’s Day 2 podcast. “Healthcare is going to become a bigger and bigger component of what their strategy is going to be, from every angle.”
But one of the tech...