The news: Amazon Telehealth has stopped working Amazon care. The tech giant won’t offer the service after December 31 because, in an internal memo, it isn’t “targeted enough for large enterprise customers.”
The writing was on the wall- Since launching its B2B telehealth business in 2019, Amazon has struggled to gain traction among its employer customers.
As of 2021, only a handful of partners have been arrested Silicon Labs, True blue, HiltonAnd General food market (which Amazon already owns)
- That hasn’t stopped Amazon Care from making its service available in more cities.
- Last year, it announced it was expanding its virtual and personal care services to employers in 20 new cities, including this year. Chicago And new york.
- But at the time We He sat down It was too early to call Amazon Care a virtual care disruptor. Especially since the client list has not grown as wide as other employer-based telehealth providers.
Amazon turns its attention to one treat: Amazon’s latest A medical to get The tech giant offers more to B2B customers than it can score on its own.
A medical service is about to arrive. 8,000 employers in 25 US markets. A medical also offers its own virtual care services in addition to physical clinics. That means running both Amazon Care and One Medical would be useless for Amazon.
Our take: We think Amazon has its eyes set on carving deeper into the home healthcare and diagnostics space.
Amazon One Medical Purchase is just the beginning in Amazon’s healthcare playbook. Indeed, last week, Bloomberg reported Both Amazon and United Health Group Bid to acquire a value-based care and home health organization Apply health..
- Signify Health is an established provider of home health services, including home health assessments. That could fit right in with Amazon’s other home health offerings. Alexa together Subscription for the elderly.
- Additionally, adding Signify Health to its roster could help Amazon grow its physician network significantly. Application health network now includes 200+ health systems, 100 federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and 10,000+ primary care practices Thanks to the latest Caravan health Purchase.
