STAT/Casey Ross: How will Amazon revolutionize health care? Follow its footprints in Seattle

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How will Amazon revolutionize health care? Follow its footprints in Seattle   

By Casey Ross @caseymross

February 12, 2018   
Pedestrians walk past the Amazon headquarters in downtown Seattle.
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mazon’s effort to shake up health care is as tantalizing as it is opaque — a giant black box hanging over one-fifth of the American economy.

But several clues about its plans are plainly visible in its hometown of Seattle, where it has hired executives from health industry heavyweights and spurred adoption of technologies it may eventually use to upend drug distribution and other aspects of care.

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    Paul Akre
    February 13, 2018 at 10:28 am

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