“Wholesale licenses are required for Amazon Business to sell professional-use only medical devices in certain states,” she said. There is little doubt, though, that Amazon is interested in at least some aspects of the pharmacy business. “My advice is that executives at pharmaceutical companies should crush all assumptions when it comes to Amazon and their ability to enter, innovate and reimagine the pharmacy business and health care,” he said. It would likely require Amazon to either acquire a pharmacy-benefit manager or enter into a partnership with an existing one. Some said they expect that if Amazon chooses to enter the health care business, it would do so in a big way.

Source: New York Times October 27, 2017 23:57 UTC