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 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’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 […]
The public health emergency continued to have an impact on home-based care providers in 2021. It didn’t define the year, however. As the top Home Health Care News stories of 2021 suggest, this year was about so much more than the COVID-19 crisis. Even more than the pandemic, the past 12 months have been about […]
As I tried to fall asleep the other night doing the 21st century version of counting sheep – listening to a podcast, of course – I heard an advertisement about home care. The ad was placed on a popular sports show from CVS Health (NYSE: CVS). Among a few other things, it featured the idea […]
Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) plan to become an at-home care player through Amazon Care came to fruition quickly. Unsurprisingly, the next steps are taking place at a similar pace. Currently limited to a few areas in the U.S. — including Washington state, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore — Amazon Care is set to expand to 20 more […]
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 […]
Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) takes another step toward health care almost monthly. Lately, one of its biggest focuses has been the shift of health care into the home. The Seattle-based company announced in March that it was expanding its on-demand health service, Amazon Care, from just its employees in Washington to the entire country. It also […]
Amazon’s (NYSE: AMZN) in-home care platform — Amazon Care — is currently designed to coordinate care for employees and their family members. In the not-too-distant future, however, it may be more generally used for chronic-disease management. That’s according to Michael Abrams, managing partner of the global health care consultancy Numerof & Associates. Abrams has been […]
Earlier this month, tech giant Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) unveiled major plans to expand its budding home-based care offering, “Amazon Care,” across the U.S. Since then, home-based care stakeholders have been trying to make sense of the news and figure out what it means for them — and the in-home care patients they serve. Their early […]
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