Becker's Healthcare July 25, 2022
Georgina Gonzalez

Amazon’s recent acquisition of One Medical, in addition to its dominance in the retail, entertainment, technology and food industries, is causing concern to some, Ari Levy, CNBC‘s deputy technology editor reported July 23.

He argued that the acquisition announcement left patients without concrete knowledge as to how Amazon may use their health data and there was also no conference call to clear up other queries. Patients then may become more wary of handing over their health data to Amazon without a clear explanation of how it’ll be used.

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Topics: Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, HIPAA, Mergers & Acquisitions / JV, Patient / Consumer, Primary care, Privacy / Security, Provider, Retailer, Trends
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