Amazon’s newest addition is healthcare that’s built around you. Right now it’s only available to Seattle employees, it seeks to dominate every industry it is involved in.
Amazon is executing it the same way it did with most of it’s other services, operating it first as an internal product then launching it to the public, exactly like it’s web services business.
The new service offers digital and in-person care along with in-home visits, chatting and video calling nurses through the app and home delivery of prescriptions.
What is Amazon (AMZN) trying to achieve?
Amazon’s main mission is to transform the healthcare industry and make it more consumer friendly. As already discovered, Amazon, JP Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway joined efforts to establish Haven Healthcare with efforts to disrupt the healthcare industry.
Markets Amazon could go after next
Amazon is always looking for industries to disrupt and here are some that Amazon may go for in the course of 5 years.
Pharmacy
Amazon recently acquired PillPack and is establishing an international pharmacy network to Amazon Prime users to get their medicinal products the Amazon gateway.
Mortgages
Speculation of Amazon’s possible involvement of mortgages rose in March of last year because Amazon started looking for a leader of their mortgage division.
