Amazon enters healthcare

Having companies like Amazon in the healthcare space is going to be great. They will bring innovation and efficiency to the system.

Saw this on reddit today where ER professionals talk to each other - link -

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14 days ago

Empathizing with patients about crappy care - how far is too far…

Rant

I find myself surrounded by absolutely ridiculous examples of horrible patient care during my day to day work in the ER. An a-fib with RVR or NSTEMI stuck out in the lobby on a drip. Patients getting “lost” in the lobby and rediscovered later only to start the clock again. A transfer that takes 36 hours to complete when we were already promised a bed. No nurse available to help grandma go to the bathroom and she pees her bed. Patients actively vomiting out in the lobby or writhing in pain from ureterolithiasis and no pain meds. Poor specialty coverage resulting in scrambling to come up with solutions for patients which can take hours. Missing equipment, broken equipment. Nowhere to see a patient to do a proper history and exam resulting in waiting room medicine and privacy violations. I could go on and on.

When patients complain, I have been agreeing with them. I see a lot of nurses getting mad at patients who complain, but why? The care we are giving patients is horrible. I tell patients it isn’t right and if I had it my way things wouldn’t be like this. Today I discovered one of my patients had a missed positive gonorrhea test eleven weeks ago and no one told her. It just slipped through the cracks. I was seeing red. I am just starting to get really really angry about the poor quality of care patients are receiving and the risk we are taking on as clinicians. It’s demoralizing, exhausting. I called her when I made the discovery and told her I was so sorry and it was “ridiculous” and unacceptable this happened. I told her I would make sure it gets addressed. But I let her know how ridiculous it was that she wasn’t notified. Now I am chastising myself for being unprofessional on that phone call. I think I probably should’ve just said “we apologize; we have staff shortages” and left it at that. I probably opened up the hospital and even myself to more liability by showing my disapproval. But I just can’t keep it in anymore.

Don’t know what I’m looking for with this post but I just feel… disappointing, exhausted, and disgusted that I am probably expected to keep a smile on my face and stand up for this stupid system that doesn’t even give a crap about me.

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13 days ago
Sounds like you work at the hospital I used to… key word is past tense. Sorry, but I bailed, can’t be a part of that. Problem is they have plenty of physical rooms and plenty of money to hire staff. Seems to me this is how “they” want it to be.

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Just like the revolutionized the grocery and pharmacy spaces.

Amazon's can barely work out shipping anymore.

AWS is their business, and the only thing they are good at

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Amazon may struggle with some of their own processes... but it cannot be denied that their presence forces other competitors to up their game.

Amazon two day shipping may not always work (especially when USPS is doing the delivery) but they forced other online retailers to improve shipping speed and cost.

Amazon grocery has forced other grocery stores to improve pickup and delivery functions.

Amazon video has provided another outlet for new movies and series.

Amazon won't take over healthcare. But they may force healthcare to get better about billing practices, pricing, delivery models, and access to records.

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Having companies like Amazon in the healthcare space is going to be great. They will bring innovation and efficiency to the system.

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Healthcare, in the end, is a service industry. Amazon is not going to have the effect that you think it will.

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Having companies like Amazon in the healthcare space is going to be great. They will bring innovation and efficiency to the system.

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Technology is the only thing that can save us.

Apple Watches
Telemedicine
Continuous glucose monitoring
Etc

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Technology is the only thing that can save us.

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A proper diet and exercise is the only thing that can save "us."

Now Prime might be worth it!

Med's next day and Dr. Apt by Wed evening.

2 of my friends own second generation family dental practices. One was bought out 2 months ago. The other is thinking hard about it. Both are/were 10+ years away from retirement. Wild times in the space.

I don't see the appeal of entering this space from Amazon's POV.

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When Amazon entered the space back in 2017 everyone claimed their business model would wipe out traditional grocery stores. 5 years later guessing Amazon is looking for an exit strategy.

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This doesn’t seem right because I just saw a story today about all of the positive changes (lowering costs) that have happened with Whole Foods since Amazon has taken over, not that it changed the industry though.