- Amazon delayed the rollout of its virtual care service after lawmakers expressed concerns about its privacy practices.
- Amazon Clinic, a virtual care offering from Amazon, can allegedly disclose some of its patients’ health information if a healthcare provider a patient used through Amazon Clinic leaves, or if the company needs to “facilitate services from other providers.”
- Amazon’s One Medical plans to open a new San Francisco clinic, expanding its partnership with San Francisco-based UCSF Health.
- Amazon debuted a $100 million generative artificial intelligence center to help customers harness the new technology.
- Sens. Peter Welch of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy expressing concerns about how the company’s virtual care platform, Amazon Clinic, collects patient data.
- Peter Lee, MD, global medical director of Amazon, left the company to join occupational health provider Work Health Solutions.
- One Medical opened its first Connecticut location under a partnership with Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare.
- Amazon Web Services partnered with health IT interoperability organization the Interoperability Institute to launch a virtual innovation center aimed at advancing healthcare interoperability.
- Amazon’s RxPass subscription medication service is now available in 44 states after expanding to Pennsylvania.
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