Amazon has struck a deal to purchase main healthcare firm One Medical for $3.9 billion. The supplier gives in-person care at areas throughout the US, however maybe of extra curiosity to Amazon, it has digital and digital care providers. The firms stated One Medical makes it simpler for folks to “schedule appointments, renew prescriptions, access up-to-date health records and advance health outcomes.”

One Medical goals to “make quality care more affordable, accessible and enjoyable.” It has 767,000 members, as CNBC notes, with 188 medical places of work throughout 25 markets. The acquisition is topic to approval from One Medical shareholders and different closing circumstances. One Medical CEO Amir Dan Rubin will stay on the helm after the deal is full.

Amazon believes that “healthcare is high on the list of experiences that need reinvention,” in keeping with Neil Lindsay, senior vice chairman of Amazon Health Services. “We love inventing to make what needs to be simple simpler and we need to be one of many firms that helps dramatically enhance the healthcare expertise over the subsequent a number of years,” Lindsay said in a statement. “Together with One Medical’s human-centered and technology-powered method to healthcare, we imagine we will and can assist extra folks get higher care, when and the way they want it.”

Over the previous few years, Amazon has made a notable push into the healthcare market. It launched an app-based well being service for its workers in 2019, which it later opened as much as extra firms. It additionally has a pharmacy service that delivers pharmaceuticals to Prime customers inside two days. The firm opened Amazon Pharmacy two years after it purchased on-line pharmacy PillPack. Last 12 months, it introduced a model of Alexa for healthcare suppliers.