Amazon says it will expand Amazon Care, a telehealth service piloted on its employees in Seattle, to other companies and the rest of its US employees this year
24 hours a day, 365 days a year Stephanie Mlot / PCMag : Amazon Care Health Service Expands Across the US This Summer Mehreen Kasana / Input : Amazon wants to be your healthcare provider Mayank Sharma / TechRadar : Amazon may soon be providing your company's healthcare Wall Street Journal : Amazon to Offer Telehealth Service to Other U.S. Firms This Summer Katie Adams / Becker's Hospital Review : 9 numbers that illustrate Amazon's expansion into healthcare Joyce Famakinwa / Home Health Care News : Amazon Reveals National Expansion Plans for In-Home Care Platform ‘Amazon Care’ Kat Jercich / Healthcare IT News : Amazon confirms nationwide expansion of telehealth services Jackie Drees / Becker's Hospital Review : Amazon expanding Amazon Care telemedicine program nationally: 6 details Raw Story : Amazon to expand health care service across US Brian Deagon / Investor's Business Daily : Amazon Rattles Health Care Stocks With National Expansion Of Telehealth Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters : Amazon starts offering healthcare service to other employers Heather Landi / FierceHealthcare : Amazon plans to expand Amazon Care virtual health service nationally to employees, other companies Matthew Barakat / Associated Press : Amazon jumps into health care with telemedicine initiative Rachel Lerman / Washington Post : Amazon built its own health-care service for employees. Now it's selling it to other companies. Tweets: Daniel Newman / @danielnewmanuv : Interesting move puts @Amazon in #Telemedicine. This should surprise no one. Logistics capabilities make sense and of course its resources are second to none. One to watch...$AMZN #Healthcare https://twitter.com/... Christina Farr / @chrissyfarr : I'll add here that interestingly, Apple did something similar with AC Wellness and did not choose to expand the offering. Amazon may be only major tech co that wants to get into the business of actual care delivery. Christina Farr / @chrissyfarr : I had been reporting on Amazon Care from the start & a lot of folks reacted with skepticism. Now, we're seeing a nationwide rollout in a few years. Amazon doesn't typically just do things for its own employees w/o an intention of massive scale... https://twitter.com/... Sarah Kliff / @sarahkliff : Alexa, call the doctor? Looks like Amazon is making a pretty significant foray into primary care telemedicine this summer. Market might have been primed a bit by the pandemic getting people used to virtual visits. https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ... Bob Wachter / @bob_wachter : Healthcare's been waiting (& fearing) entry of @amazon into “our space.” Now Amazon Care represents biggest foray into virtual care at scale. Many digital giants have failed at “disrupting” healthcare (incl. Amazon's Haven) but I wouldn't bet against this. https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ...