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- health@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- health@lemmy.world
Amazon is lowering the cost of a One Medical membership for Amazon Prime subscribers, shaving $100 off the annual fee to $99 a year. The step is the latest effort by the e-commerce company to mesh its chain of doctor’s offices with its retail services.
Amazon already runs a web pharmacy and a telehealth service called Amazon Clinic that uses third-party medical providers to help treat less serious conditions, like pinkeye. It’s also testing a service to drop medications on its pharmacy patients’ doorsteps via drone in an hour or less.
A Prime subscription runs $139 a year, also offering streaming services and quicker shipping.
As someone who works in medical I can say hospitals and other medical facilities absolutely can not sell your data without violating tons of hipaa regulations. I can say we can allow a company to come in and obfuscate data before selling it off. The big difference here would be there can not be any identifier that can link anyone (which happens with most companies that sell data), it’s mostly data on trends. If you can prove otherwise that would be a hell of an amazing lawsuit.