Amazon to Soon Launch Telehealth Offering in All 50 States

A report in the Business Insider says Amazon will soon launch Amazon Care, its app-based healthcare service for employees, across the United States, according to Healthcare IT News . The company will solicit employers to use Amazon Care as well. The app presently links Washington state-based employees to providers for various primary and urgent care services, and those in the greater Seattle area can have a nurse sent to them for follow-up treatment. The wider launch also will include telehealth services to Amazon workers in all 50 states. Amazon also may announce partnerships with one or two more companies to provide Amazon Care to their employees, although it is unclear whether home services will be offered. Amazon will likely have to deal with shifting regulations on licensing and telehealth as lawmakers look toward the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Insider's Blake Dodge said the launch "will . . . be the first time that the company makes clear the purpose behind Amazon Care, which is to not just serve Amazon's own employees but also stand up a lucrative healthcare business in the $3.8 trillion healthcare industry, while solving for other employers their shared cost headaches."