Opinion: Amazon and One Medical: Minding the data gaps
When Amazon announced its intention to acquire One Medical, a primary care organization that leverages its digital health platform and brick-and-mortar clinics to offer on-demand health care services, it declared “health care is high on the list of experiences that need reinvention” as a reason for the acquisition.
Reinventing, reforming, or trying to fix any aspect of the U.S. health care system increasingly relies on analyzing patient data to improve care delivery. It’s possible that the aim of the acquisition is to get One Medical’s data. But key to ensuring equitable reform is having data from a broad range of socioeconomic backgrounds and racial and ethnic groups. Our examination of data about One Medical indicates that Amazon may have a big data gap to overcome.
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