Healthcare is too damn profitable for Amazon to ignore. It’s investing in telehealth and gambling that younger healthcare customers want a faster and more efficient system than the current one filled with appointments and tests.
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Quick Read: Amazon will dramatically expand its healthcare reach with its planned $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical, a primary care provider with 188 offices in 25 markets nationwide but are they making a strategic move or a mistake? Telehealth has a future, but one could argue that physicians need to see patients firsthand to diagnose and evaluate patients. We also have to ponder the number of people who need more tests and coordination of medical records between HCPs.