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The recent news that Jeff Bezos would be stepping down as Amazon CEO has made some question what he will be leaving for the future of the company ‘s venture into healthcare. But Jeff Bezos was never a future for Amazon Health.
While he was the brains behind the first idea at work, other employees at Amazon were overseeing the company’s health care efforts. A few weeks before Bezos announced his retirement, Amazon’s consumer business leader Dave Clark reached out to President Joe Biden offering to help with Covid-19’s extensive vaccination effort . And just days before Bezos broke his news, he was a medical officer at Amazon Health who participated in a seed funding round for HealthTensor, an artificial intelligence startup developing AI-powered clinical diagnostic software.
Amazon individuals – not necessarily Bezos – have been making systematic investments in healthcare-related businesses for years. And those investments aren’t automatically outsourced just because a new CEO is stepping in, especially when you consider who that new CEO is, where the business has been. direction, and why the company is interested in health care.
Bezos fan is Andy Jassy, who was head of Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) division. Already, AWS has proven its value with a real wealth of successful healthcare practice cases, from care coordination and patient involvement to healthcare analytics and clinical data storage.
Along with the digital health boost thanks to Covid-19, AWS will be a key part of Amazon’s future success. The company seems to know that too. AWS’s five recent job openings are senior positions related to growing investment in the healthcare industry, indicating that the company is actively looking to dive even deeper into the space. sin.
If all of this isn’t proven enough, think about what Amazon brought to healthcare in the first place: the PillPack build. It was already able to deliver almost every other good to their customers, offering consumers an easy way to get their prescriptions as a reasonable, albeit complex one. The mail order business that delivers drugs and over-the-counter devices is one thing, but the management and delivery of pharmaceuticals is another.
The longer Amazon can extend its reach to care delivery, the more likely it is that Amazon will be able to take control of a care program from start to finish. In other words, Amazon could be involved in almost every step of the continuing care, from a patient visiting their provider, to their provider sending information. -enter into their AWS system and upload a prescription for PillPack to complete and deliver to the patient. Tidying care delivery in this way provides an excellent opportunity that Amazon is already working to achieve.
Of course, a lot of healthcare is ripe for a disorder like this, and if past performance is any indication, we should expect more Amazon involvement in the healthcare industry in the days to come; no less. Bezos may be changing his career, but just as telehealth is here to stay, so is Amazon Health.