The e-commerce giant amazon announced this Wednesday in an email to its employees that it will close the telemedicine service AmazonCarewhich after initially being available only to Amazon workers, was launched last year for the rest of the companies in the US.
The service, which was hired by companies such as Hilton, Silicon Labs, Precor and Whole Foodsamong others, and which also continued to offer telemedicine to employees of Amazon itself, will cease to operate at the end of this year.
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In March 2021, the firm from Seattle (Washington state, USA) revealed that the service could be contracted by any company based in one of the 50 states of the USA and would connect patients with medical professionals through a mobile application. Once connected, they could talk through written messages or by videoconference.
Amazon Care has been operating since 2019 in a trial mode only for the company’s employees in Washington, where it is based.
In the United States, most workers receive health insurance through their employers and the health system (in which the private sector is predominant) constitutes a succulent market that moves billions of dollars annually and through which technology firms such as Amazon, Google and Apple are betting big.
In 2018, Amazon reached an agreement with the bank JPMorgan Chase and the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway to create a new company that would take charge of health services for its employees, an initiative that did not work.
