{"id":97769,"date":"2019-10-23T21:42:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T04:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/amazon-buys-healthcare-start-up-health-navigator"},"modified":"2019-10-23T21:42:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T04:42:50","slug":"amazon-buys-healthcare-start-up-health-navigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/amazon-buys-healthcare-start-up-health-navigator","title":{"rendered":"Amazon buys healthcare start-up Health Navigator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-buys-healthcare-start-up-health-navigator3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marketing always starts with Demand (Reuters) \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\/\">http:\/\/Amazon.com\/<\/a> Inc said on Wednesday it bought healthcare start-up Health Navigator, its second purchase in the healthcare services industry.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>(Reuters) \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a> Inc said on Wednesday it bought healthcare start-up Health Navigator, its second purchase in the healthcare services industry.<\/p>\n<p>The deal comes after the company acquired online pharmacy PillPack last year, pitting itself against drugstore chains, drug distributors and pharmacy benefit managers. (<a href=\"https:\/\/reut.rs\/31DSU8k\">reut.rs\/31DSU8k<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>The company said the acquisition is a part of its new employee offering, Amazon Care, where employees of the e-commerce giant will be able to receive fast-paced access to healthcare facilities without having to make appointments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marketing always starts with Demand (Reuters) \u2014 http:\/\/Amazon.com\/ Inc said on Wednesday it bought healthcare start-up Health Navigator, its second purchase in the healthcare services industry. (Reuters) \u2014 Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it bought healthcare start-up Health Navigator, its second purchase in the healthcare services industry. The deal comes after the company acquired online [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}