Amazon Opens a Virtual Medical Clinic for their Employees

Amazon’s employees in Seattle, subscribers of their health plan, will be the first to have access to their latest pilot project: a virtual clinic.

Thie Amazon Care concept is especially intended for Amazon employees. It features telemedicine and in-person services with a team of nurse practitioners: if an appointment must be made, they can visit patients at home.
Services include:
- Medical appointments (telemedicine) with physicians or other medical practitioners able to provide them with customised advice, diagnostics and prescriptions.
- Solution for ordering medications (to be delivered by courier or picked up at a pharmacy).
Amazon Care is available from a mobile app, a dedicated website and even via chat from 8AM to 9PM on week days and from 8AM to 6PM on weekends.

Aiming at the healthcare sector. Amazon targets an industry worth $3,250 billion in the US. With Amazon Care, they are trialling technical assistance solutions likely to be applied to other targets later on.
Improving access to healthcare services. Amazon commits to helping their employees benefit from the best possible healthcare support.
Addressing the issue of sick leaves. This option also appears as a strategic launch for the group, enabling them to anticipate or prevent sick leaves, while respecting their employees’ privacy via a partnership with a non-Amazon-linked legal subsidiary, Oasis Medical.

Amazon Care becomes a reality after six months of rumours. The Web giant is running pilot tests for now but confirms their ambition to address the healthcare market.
also launched a health-dedicated voice-based chatbot in 2018, and said that their foray into this industry would be relying on technological solutions.
American Web giant has also been featuring healthcare services for their employees: Apple. Fitbit, for their part, designed “Care” for health institutions and companies.

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Source : CNBC