Amazon Care may be to healthcare what Amazon Prime is to shopping


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  • Thursday, 03 Oct 2019

Amazon Care, now being tested on company employees, includes video conferences with doctors and nurses, online prescriptions being written and drugs being delivered by courier. — Amazon Care/TNS

When Amazon joined Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase last year in establishing a joint venture aimed at overhauling the US healthcare system, people could only guess as to what the three corporate behemoths had in mind.

The picture is now clearer, or at least it seems to be.

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