HealthLeaders Media March 19, 2019
Amazon could join retail clinics already competing with hospitals and health systems to provide outpatient healthcare services.
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Amazon’s launch of new ‘urban grocery stores’ could serve as a possible beachhead for expansion into outpatient medical care services.
Amazon plans to offer goods besides food in the grocery stores, creating a potential entry point for it to get into brick-and-mortar retail healthcare.
Even in a digital age where more services are headed online, e-commerce retail giant Amazon could be poised, alongside retail healthcare clinics, to compete with hospitals and health systems on their brick-and-mortar playing fields.
And there’s little preventing Amazon from doing this, especially after news the company is looking to launch new...
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