Relentless Health Value

In a recent article in STAT news, TJ Parker, the VP of pharmacy at Amazon and the founder of PillPack, explained that Amazon’s plan to stand out in the pharmacy space is simple: “Better selection, better convenience, and better prices.” He added, “It really is the Amazon playbook.”  Better selection, better convenience, better price. The playbook of arguably one of the most successful companies ever, Amazon has decimated and bankrupted anybody standing in its way toward total market dominance. This same better selection, better convenience, better price trio—maybe with “better selection” inferred to mean “getting the right care to the right patient at the right time”—is the vision of many of the virtual-first health care providers starting to pop up. And when I say “pop up,” I mean that in Q1 of this year, according to data from Rock Health, $6.7 billion was invested in digital health companies.  In this health care podcast, we’re talking about the proliferation of these “virtual-first” health care solutions.