The e-commerce heavyweight scents a fresh opportunity for a push into the sector.
Last month Amazon shelled out $3.9bn for One Medical, a subscription-based healthcare provider that brings along more than 200 medical offices and 790,000 members. This week, it emerged that Amazon plans to bid against pharmacy chain CVS for Signify Health, a $6bn home health services provider in a September auction.
Read the full article on the Financial Times website (PayWall)
NAM Implications:
- “The deal is the latest in a concerted push by Amazon to develop its healthcare services, which includes its acquisitions of online pharmacy PillPack and start-up Health Navigator, and the launch of the Amazon Pharmacy service in 2020.”
- Think: Booking an appointment, waiting weeks or even months to be seen, taking time off work, driving to a clinic, finding a parking spot, waiting in the waiting room then the exam room for what is too often a rushed few minutes with a doctor, then making another trip to a pharmacy (add aftercare)
- All based on what Amazon knows about you, physically, mentally, and economically…
- Now think what a threat this WILL be to Little ole’ UK…
- (and especially Boots…)
