STAT+: What Amazon Care’s nationwide expansion means for the telehealth industry
Amazon is officially starting its ascent to the national telehealth stage — and its nationwide expansion is putting the rest of the telemedicine industry on notice.
The company announced a sweeping expansion on Wednesday of Amazon Care, its virtual and in-person health care platform. Amazon will offer telehealth services to its own employees nationwide this summer will also make in-person care available in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. The news came just two weeks after STAT reported that the company’s clinical partner, Care Medical, had quietly filed paperwork to start working in more than a dozen states.
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