Amazon acquires start-up Health Navigator, its first health-related purchase since PillPack (CNBC)
Amazon has acquired Health Navigator, a start-up founded by emergency medicine doctor David Thompson, the company confirmed to CNBC.
Health Navigator is known for providing online symptom checking and triage tools to companies that are looking to route patients to the right place.
Amazon will offer Health Navigator to employees as part of its Amazon Care clinics, which are being piloted to employees.
Amazon has just made its second acquisition in the health-care space, snapping up a start-up called Health Navigator, which provides technology and services to digital health companies.
Amazon confirmed the acquisition to CNBC, and said that Health Navigator will join the company’s Amazon Care group, which launched in September. Amazon Care is designed to serve as a medical benefit for employees and helps provide care virtually, through a video visit, and with home visits if additional care is needed.
“The service eliminates travel and wait time, connecting employees and their family members to a physician or nurse practitioner through live chat or video, with the option...
