Healthcare Gets Amazon Treatment
This is indeed fascinating - Amazon Care. Yes, Amazon has "launched Amazon Care, a primary care service for its employees that combines telemedicine checkups, at-home or in-office doctor’s visits and prescription deliveries through a single program".
This is the latest move into healthcare by Amazon, which has also been pursuing prescription drug delivery, dabbling in employee benefits, using cloud computing to mine medical records, and reportedly developing earbuds that track your activity. Tech rivals like Apple, Google and Microsoft are also making headway into healthcare with efforts that range from health-oriented wearable devices to artificial intelligence systems that can diagnose diseases.
Here’s how Amazon Care works: Sick employees can sign into a mobile app to meet with a nurse practitioner in real-time through text or video. If the condition can’t be diagnosed or treated remotely, the employees can request that a clinician visit them at home or in the office to perform exams, administer vaccines, collect samples or other common tasks. The program also includes a service for prescriptions, which may be delivered in as little as two hours or sent to a pharmacy to be picked up.
