This is just the latest product offered by Amazon in its effort to expand into the healthcare industry. In July, the e-commerce giant announced the launch of Amazon Pharmacy, which would deliver reduced prescription drugs to Prime members in 2020, and it agreed to buy primary healthcare firm One Medical for $3.9 billion. Amazon provides an app-based telemedicine service called Amazon Care to its workers and other businesses throughout the United States, but it will cease operations on December 31st. According to a previous Washington Post report, Amazon Health Services SVP Neil Lindsay told employees that while “enrolled members have loved many aspects of Amazon Care,” the service “is not a complete enough offering for the large enterprise customers [the company] has been targeting, and wasn’t going to work long-term.”
