Amazon Launches Its Next Health Care Venture ‘Amazon Clinic’

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) is launching its next health care venture. Dubbed Amazon Clinic, it will be a “virtual health service that delivers convenient, affordable care for common conditions.” There is a not a direct home-based care angle, other than that products and services will be offered to consumers at their homes. However, it could create […]

How Home-Based Care Became Table Stakes For CVS, Walgreens, Amazon

Last December, I wrote about the “retail giants ready to disrupt home-based care.” Though confident in my hypothesis that these larger companies – CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) – were going to enter further into the home-based care space, I was not under the […]

Why Amazon Is Shutting Down Amazon Care

When the news hit Wednesday that Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) was shutting down its virtual and at-home care business – Amazon Care – there was reasonably some confusion among the health care industry at large. The shutting down of Amazon Care is a failure if viewed in a vacuum. Amazon was unable to disrupt the health […]

Amazon Is Shutting Down The Virtual- And Home-Focused ‘Amazon Care’

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) is shutting down Amazon Care, the virtual and in-home care service that it first began rolling out to its own employees in 2019. Once considered the brand that would either help along or significantly disrupt the home-based care space, Amazon Care had initially planned to roll its services out to 20 additional […]

Amazon Agrees to Buy Primary Care Company One Medical for $3.9B

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) announced plans on Thursday to acquire the primary care provider One Medical (Nasdaq: ONEM) for a price tag of $3.9 billion.  Once the acquisition closes, it will give Amazon a large primary care capability to potentially pair with its growing home-based care business, Amazon Care. Originally launched in 2019 as part of […]

Amazon Expanding Virtual Care Platform Nationwide, Bringing In-Person Services to 20 New Cities

Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) in-home care arm is on the move, expanding to more than 20 new cities while rolling out even more care options. Launched in 2019 as part of a pilot with Amazon’s Seattle-based employees, the Amazon Care model uses virtual and in-person visits from medical professionals to deliver “health care to customers when […]

CVS Health Executive: ‘Underestimate Amazon at One’s Peril’

The retail giants are getting — either indirectly or directly — into home-based care. That matters, because if they didn’t firmly believe in it, they wouldn’t be paying any mind to it at all. “We’re a $270 billion company. … You have to pick what you’re going to spend your time on,” Alan Lotvin, the […]

Amazon Reportedly Gets Turned Down by CVS Health in Effort to Expand In-Home Care Platform’s Footprint

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has approached CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) in order to expand the coverage of its Amazon Care services, according to a report from Business Insider.  CVS Health is the parent company of the health insurer Aetna, which Amazon has reportedly reached out to, among other insurers. The move suggests that Amazon is moving […]