Ask anyone to name healthcare’s emerging disruptors, and Amazon will be among the top three – if not No. 1. The company with a $6.7 billion Q2 profit has a strong chokehold on the industry’s hypothetical thinking, reports Becker’s.
When leaders in legacy healthcare discuss Amazon’s power, the tone is often defeated: This faceless, looming force will end up controlling most aspects of our lives anyway, right?
But looking at Amazon’s moves into other industries, there might be some evidence to suggest that healthcare leaders and professionals need not give up the ship — at least not yet. A time of great workforce fragility in healthcare is not the time to prematurely credit the e-commerce goliath with more mindshare than it deserves. Read more.
