Signify Premium Insight: Amazon’s Multi-Billion Dollar Care Conundrum

What began as a purely cloud-based healthcare play for Amazon is evolving into an ecosystem of health IT and services propelled by the proliferation of value-based care (VBC) reimbursement models in the US. But it has been an uncertain and unfamiliar journey for the tech giant. Its recent $3.9bn planned acquisition of telehealth firm One Medical, coming weeks before its failure to land Signify Health, indicate that its healthcare strategy is still very much a work in progress.