Amazon Launches Amazon Care, Providing Virtual Visits for Its Seattle Employees

Amazon is launching a virtual care (i.e., telemedicine) choice for its Seattle employees in collaboration withOasis Medical Group, a family medicine clinic in Seattle (see:Amazon launches Amazon Care, a telemedicine-driven care offering for Seattle employees). Here is an excerpt from the article:Amazon is launching Amazon Care, a virtual primary care offering for its Seattle-based employees....Amazon Care will include telemedicine, online chat with a nurse, medication delivery, and app-enabled house calls to the employee's office or home.Amazon is not employing any doctors; instead the company is contracting with a local clinic called Oasis Medical Group....It is not being offered or recommended for emergency care. The news comes after more than a year of rumors that Amazon was considering its own clinic for employees, and the industry has already seen plenty of speculation about what the move might mean. A key question is whether this will remain a service for Amazon employees only, or if the company is planning to eventually offer it as a direct-to-consumer healthcare product in its own right.Amazon is following in the footsteps of Apple, which quietly launched its own employee clinic network calledAC Wellness in early 2018. If Amazon Care is going to be offered more broadly eventually, it could connect with several other Amazon entre és into healthcare, such as the company's PillPack acquisition orHaven, its much-ballyhooed JV with Berkshire-Hathaway and JP ...
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