The company has been working on Amazon Care for several years as a pilot project. The app provides virtual medical consultations, as well as a way to schedule a follow-up visit from a health professional to a patient's home or office.
Although the service is just for Amazon employees in Seattle today, if it succeeds in improving employee satisfaction and lowering costs, Amazon could theoretically offer it more broadly to other companies or directly to consumers.
Amazon has a number of open roles, including product managers and designers, for Amazon Care as it looks to expand the team. Its care providers, including the physicians and nurses, are technically employed by a separate subsidiary called Oasis Medical. That provision ensures that Amazon won't possess knowledge about its employees' health that it's not legally entitled to have.
Amazon isn't the only technology company to set up its own primary care clinics for its workers. Apple has its own clinics, called AC Wellness, which are intended toAmazon Care is just one part of Amazon's overall health care strategy. As an employer, it is working with
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