Amazon is shutting down the hybrid virtual, in-home care service it’s spent years developing, a surprising move that underscores the challenges it faces as it moves into health care.
FILE - An Amazon logo appears on a delivery van, Oct. 1, 2020, in Boston. Amazon is shutting down the hybrid virtual, in-home care service its spent years developing. The service, called Amazon Care, will end by Dec. 31, 2022. –
The service connects patients virtually with doctors and nurses who can provide treatment 24 hours a day. It does not have physical locations, but offers in-person services for things like vaccinations and flu testing in several cities, including Seattle and Washington, D.C. He added that Amazon Care"is not a complete enough offering for the large enterprise customers we have been targeting, and wasn’t going to work long-term.”
with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway to improve health care costs. The three corporate giants formed an independent company called Haven to focus on improving care and manage expenses, but it dissolved last year.to spend $3.9 billion to buy the primary care organization One Medical, a membership-based service that offers virtual care as well as in-person visits. As of March, One Medical had about 767,000 members and 188 medical offices in 25 markets.
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