As ultra-fast prescription delivery services reshape medication access, healthcare providers face an urgent challenge: balancing patient convenience with medication safety. With 1 in 5 adults using five or more prescription drugs and medication-related problems consuming 1 in 6 healthcare dollars ($528B annually), the stakes are high.
In this interview, Yoona Kim, CEO of healthcare AI company Arine discusses how the evolution of prescription delivery services, while improving access, may
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HLTH: Cleveland Clinic, Amazon One Medical Partner to Expand Primary Care Access in Northeast Ohio
What You Should Know:
- Academic health system Cleveland Clinic and Amazon One Medical, a hybrid virtual and in-person primary care provider, are collaborating to improve access to seamless and coordinated care in Northeast Ohio.
- The strategic partnership will leverage the strengths of both organizations to offer patients a comprehensive and convenient healthcare experience.
Expanding Access to Primary Care
Amazon One Medical will open its first primary care office in
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Lilly Partners with Amazon Pharmacy to Deliver GLP-1 Medications Directly to Patients
What You Should Know:
- Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) and Amazon Pharmacy today announced a strategic collaboration to improve patient access to GLP-1 medications for diabetes, obesity, and migraines.
- The partnership aims to improve access to these treatments and empower patients with the support they need to manage their chronic conditions.
Addressing a Growing Need
Millions of Americans struggle with diabetes, obesity, and related conditions. Nearly one in three adults
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Amazon Unveils Health Condition Programs Making Chronic Condition Management Easier
What You Should Know:
- Amazon launches its new Health Condition Programs to simplify access to digital health benefits offered by insurance plans and employers.
- By partnering with companies like Omada Health, Amazon brings awareness and enrollment options directly to patients where they're already looking for health information. This collaboration targets conditions like diabetes prevention, diabetes management, and hypertension, impacting millions of Americans.
How Amazon’s Health
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Amazon Prime Launches One Medical Healthcare for $9 a Month
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Prime members can now get high-quality, convenient care from One Medical for $99 per year, saving $100 on the annual membership fee. The new One Medical membership covers unlimited access to 24/7 on-demand virtual care and in-person and remote primary care services.
- Prime members can add up to five additional memberships, each costing just $6 per month (or $66 annually—up to $133 off the standard fee). Prime members can go to health.amazon.com/prime to add
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FemTech: Amazon Offers Free Virtual Fertility & Family-Building Support to Employees Globally
What You Should Know:
Amazon announced that it is providing free virtual fertility & family-building as a benefit through Maven Clinic to its employees in 50 countries across Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Through this femtech benefit, all full-time, part-time and hourly employees in these countries and their partners have free access to Maven Clinic’s virtual fertility and family-building platform spanning preconception, egg freezing, IUI and IVF,
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Amazon Clinic Expands Virtual Health Nationwide
What You Should Know:
Today, Amazon Clinic announced it is now available to customers in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., offering more people easy access to licensed clinicians for virtual care.Amazon Clinic is a virtual health care marketplace available to adults 18-64, that connects customers to third-party, licensed clinicians to help manage common health conditions like urinary tract infections, pink eye, and erectile dysfunction.
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Customers can select
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Consumer Trust: How Healthcare Organizations Can Build Confidence with AI
Trust is a vital component of healthcare. It impacts whether someone shows up for a doctor’s appointment, follows their treatment plan, or plays an active role in their health.
But building trust doesn’t just happen at the front counter, inside the doctor's office, or in face-to-face interactions. Increasingly, consumers are interacting with their health plans through online and mobile touchpoints — and these virtual experiences are no less crucial to building trust than in-person
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Philips HealthSuite Imaging PACS Now Available on AWS
What You Should Know:
Market-leading Philips PACS is now available on AWS for industry-leading availability, reliability, security, and AI-supported workflow enhancements.Expansion of the collaboration with AWS will support the development and deployment of generative AI applications that further support efficient clinical workflows and enhance diagnostic capabilities. Market-leading Philips PACS is now available on AWS for industry-leading availability, reliability, security, and
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Amazon Rolls Out New Alexa Healthcare Features
What You Should Know:
Today at HIMSS23, Amazon announced a new suite of Alexa Smart Properties (ASP) for Healthcare capabilities designed to improve the patient and medical staff experience at hospitals.
- With these new capabilities, healthcare and solution providers have even more ways to enable device fleet management and build Alexa capabilities at scale for patient care.
The new Alexa features include:
Upcoming availability of WebRTC support: will help patients
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