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Amazon Makes Inroads Selling Medical Supplies to the Sick

December 5, 2018

A growing number of doctors around the U.S. can direct a patient to Amazon.com Inc. to buy blood-pressure cuffs, slings and other supplies via an app embedded in the patient’s private medical record—a change creating convenience but also raising privacy concerns.
Hospitals that use the app say the goal is to replace the handwritten shopping lists doctors often hand people, which are easy to lose, and to spare frazzled patients lengthy searches through pharmacy shelves.
Read more at The Wall Street Journal >>

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