“Amazon will need to work extremely hard and be extremely innovative if it is to do more than shake things up a little at the margins,” Saunders said in a statement. But making a big splash isn’t always easy. Healthcare, which is complex but extremely lucrative, is an attractive option. The company’s retail and cloud-computing businesses are becoming more mature and it’s looking to find new opportunities for growth, Saunders said. Neil Saunders, managing director at GlobalData Retail, said it is unsurprising Amazon is expanding its footprint in healthcare. And last year, it began offering its Amazon Care telemedicine program to employers nationwide. In 2018, it bought the online pharmacy PillPack for $750m before opening its own online drug store that allows customers to order medication or prescription refills and have them delivered to their front door in a couple of days.
Employers and insurers think that by connecting people to regular care, they can prevent expensive hospital stays from happening or keep chronic conditions like diabetes from leading to bigger problems.įor Amazon, the acquisition deepens its foray into healthcare services, the latest industry the company has sought to disrupt.
Healthcare costs have risen faster than wages and inflation for years and represent a huge expense to employers that offer coverage. Healthcare bill payers like employers and insurers are also becoming more focused on improving access to patient care and making sure their patients stay tuned in to their health, see their doctors regularly and take their prescriptions. Overall, consumer demand for telemedicine and virtual health care care visits exploded during the Covid-19 pandemic. “We love inventing to make what should be easy easier and we want to be one of the companies that helps dramatically improve the healthcare experience over the next several years,” Lindsay said. Neil Lindsay, the senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, said in a statement the acquisition is geared toward reinventing the healthcare “experience“ for things like booking an appointment and taking trips to the pharmacy. The total deal value announced Thursday includes One Medical’s debt. It also works with more than 8,000 companies to provide its health benefits to employees.Īs of March, One Medical had about 767,000 members and 188 medical offices in 25 markets, according to its first-quarter earnings report, which also showed the company had incurred a net loss of $90.9m after pulling in $254.1m in revenue. The authors discuss the potential sources and impact of this bias, make a case for sex and race diversity in didactic imagery, and propose possible avenues for further research and curricular reform in an era when the population is becoming increasingly racially and ethnically diverse.One Medical, whose parent company is the San Francisco based 1Life Healthcare, Inc, is a membership-based service that offers virtual care as well as in-person visits. The proportion of images used in didactic courses at one school of medicine is not representative of the U.S. Thus, images of whites and males predominated. Of the 5,230 images that could be coded by race/ethnicity, 78.4% (4,100) were white and 21.6% (1,130) were persons of color. Of the 4,033 images that could be coded by sex, 39.6% (1,595) were female and 60.5% (2,438) were male. The authors coded the human images into various sex- and race-specific classifications and evaluated the distribution of images into these categories. The authors analyzed 747 "decks" of slides from 33 preclinical courses in the medical school curriculum at the University of Washington School of Medicine in the years spanning 2009 to 2011. The authors investigated whether this bias exists in PowerPoint slides used in didactic material for preclinical students at one medical school.
The unequal representation of women and people of color compared with men and whites in medical school textbooks has been well documented, as have health care inequities, and biases-both overt and implicit-by health care providers and in access to care.
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