USA TODAY
Amazon s virtual health care service, Amazon Care, will be available to all U.S. companies and Amazon employees starting this summer, according to a statement published by the retail giant.
The telehealth service is currently available to Amazon employees and employees of companies in Washington who supply Amazon Care. The app, available for iOS and Android, virtually connects employees and their families to medical professionals allowing patients to live chat with a nurse or doctor via in-app messaging or video.
The program also includes an in-person component in which a medical professional visits a patient s home to provide additional care such as routine blood draws or listening to a patient s lungs among other procedures. Amazon Care’s in-person service will expand to Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Seattle in the coming months.
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Try to imagine the past year without WiFi. Without Zoom and Slack. Without the ability to visit a doctor virtually or transfer documents through the cloud. While the Covid-19 pandemic continues to affect lives and businesses and disrupt the economy in ways no one imagined a year ago, it has also highlighted technology’s essential role in our lives.
“Technology is enabling the remote workforce that is keeping the economy afloat, the distance learning keeping students on track, the telemedicine helping to maintain community health, and the communication tools keeping us all connected,” says Jeff Tollefson, president and CEO of the Minnesota Technology Association.