Paging Doctor Amazon: The impact of tech’s assault on healthcare
April 9, 2018
The Philadelphia InquirerBy Mara I. Smith
The tech industry is tackling healthcare. Recently, corporate giants Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase announced that they will be partnering to create a system that will reduce health care costs and improve healthcare services for their U.S. employees. Since then, Apple, without fanfare, published a website providing details about the impending launch of group health clinics, called AC Wellness that will provide Apple employees and their families with “concierge-like” healthcare services. Today, most Americans receive employer-sponsored health insurance and these four companies combined employ over 1 million workers in the United States. They have the power, money, and technology to take on both the private and non-profit (including government) health care industries and have more than enough potential to win.
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