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Amazon launch Amazon Care service offering Mobile Video Consults with Primary Care Physicians & Nurses

mHealth Insight

I presume this is because Kaiser Permante were the first major healthcare brand to go Mobile First (back in 2012) and have been offering their own mobile video consulting services to their customers for 6+ years now. It’s interesting that Amazon employees who are enrolled in Kaiser Permanente insurance plans are not eligible.

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Skeptics ask why patients would even WANT their medical images. We asked on Facebook.

Society for Participatory Medicine

Then in 2012, in Best Care at Lower Cost , the Institute of Medicine wrote ( Table S-2 ) that one of the four cornerstones of the future of healthcare was (their exact words) “Patient-clinician partnerships” with “Engaged, empowered patients.” ” Think again about Dr.

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