Amazon care is offering healthcare services through the means of IoT
We all are familiar with the virtual fitness and health assistants everyone uses nowadays, but Amazon has stepped up their game and is providing health insurance to their employees through their platform called Amazon care. Amazon care is a simple IoT based healthcare platform for the employees of Amazon.
The service is being provided to people who work for Amazon or those who are dependent on someone working at Amazon. Amazon care is a complete health insurance alternative that is being offered by the company for its employees.
Special services through the means of IoT based platform
This particular service is taking the next step in the world of application of IoT in healthcare services. This is better than the existing virtual healthcare services as this application is not only limited at diagnosing or prescribing medicines but it will also get the concerned person in contact with the necessary medical center or doctor. The application utilizes IoT to establish contact between the specialist and the patient and even arranges for transportation automatically if needed.
The process of operation of the platform
In cases of pre-diagnosed medications, employee’s form the Amazon care service will be dispatched with the medication for your location, which will be pre-identified through IoT, or for your convenience will be dispatched to your nearest medical store for your sake of ease of picking them up.
The application requires access to your previous medical history for complete and efficient operation. The IoT based operation helps the application in cross-referencing your medical needs of the past with your present ones and automatically determines the best healthcare facility that you should avail of and even prescribe the medications.
IoT is the future of healthcare
IoT has always been popular since its inception and the healthcare industry is working tirelessly incorporate it into large scale processes. Amazon care is still in the beta testing rounds and still not available on a large scale but it cannot be denied that this particular platform is monumental in terms of the application of IoT in healthcare. As per the market report by Value Market Research the IoT in healthcare is expected to have high demand as it can minimize the emergency healthcare response times and reduce the barrier between the patients and the medical experts outside of the hospitals and clinics.
Virtual healthcare services are very popular right now and this new step by Amazon is bound to invigorate the interest of the investors in the application of IoT in healthcare. So we can only expect more and more platforms to rise in the future.
Nishtha Sarabhai after working for three years in a Bank switched to writing to balance her work and home. She is a mother of two beautiful kids. She enjoys writing on Aerospace, Science and new invcentions. She has been with VMR news since its inception.