- Amazon has been pushing deeper into healthcare over the past few years.
- It’s focused on providing primary care and dispensing prescriptions through Amazon Pharmacy.
- It hasn’t been smooth sailing, and the tech giant has shut down some projects. Here’s a timeline.
Amazon has big plans to disrupt healthcare.
Last year, the retail and tech giant made waves when it announced plans to acquire the primary-care company One Medical.
In January, Amazon released a subscription program allowing users to get generic prescriptions for $5 a month. The fee covers all eligible prescriptions for Prime members, in a program that rivals other retailers offering low-price generic medications.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has called Amazon a “significant disruptor” of the medical-care field, according to leaked audio obtained by Insider’s Eugene Kim and Blake Dodge.
It hasn’t been smooth sailing for every healthcare project. Haven, Amazon’s joint venture with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway, shut down in early 2021 after three years of trying to improve care and lower healthcare costs for the three companies’ employees. In August, it shut down Amazon Care, a big homegrown primary-care bet.
Analysts think in 2023 Amazon will continue to build on its healthcare business through more acquisitions.
Read on to see the rise and fall of some of Amazon’s biggest healthcare ambitions.
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