Industry Bulletins | November 6, 2019
Amazon Acquires Health Navigator For Pilot Employee Health Care Program, Amazon Care
Amazon acquired Health Navigator, which becomes part of Amazon Care its pilot health care service program for employees. Health Navigator’s platform was created to be integrated into online health services, including telemedicine and medical call centers, to standardize the process of working with consumers. Its platform includes natural language processing tools for documenting health complaints and care recommendations, and is integrated into apps with application programming interfaces (APIs). Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
This is the second health startup acquired by Amazon. The first was online pharmacy PillPack, purchased by the company in 2018 for slightly . . .