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Morning Headlines 9/25/19
Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual medical clinic for employees
Amazon launches a Seattle-area pilot of Amazon Care, a virtual primary care clinic for its employees that includes a nurse house call option.
China’s Ping An Good Doctor – which offers online consultations, hospital referrals, appointments, second opinions, and prescription delivery – reaches 300 million registered users, which represents one in three internet users in China.
New York EHealth Collaborative issues an RFI for patient-facing software that can access and aggregate patient medical records and support patient-provider messaging.
Provider groups ask Congress for help on info blocking
CHIME, AMIA, MGMA, AHIMA, AMA and two other groups ask Congress to modify ONC’s proposed implementation of the information blocking provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act.
The Amazon care thing just seems like the natural progression for all health insurance services. Once you graduate out of the individual -> small market -> ASO pipeline, you are big enough to just provide the service yourself. What interests me is whether any of the telehealth companies are providing this service to Amazon directly or if Amazon will eventually move to a white labeled service once they are done with the pilot.