The inside story of why Amazon bought PillPack in its effort to crack the $500 billion prescription market

Cnbc, 10/05/2019

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Joséphine Arrighi de Casanova

Joséphine Arrighi de Casanova

The inside story of why Amazon bought PillPack in its effort to crack the $500 billion prescription market

WHY AMAZON BOUGHT PILLPACK AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.
A story on how big tech giants move into healthcare.

On June 28, Amazon announced that it was buying PillPack for an undisclosed sum (later revealed as $753 million), snapping up a company that delivers most of the medications consumers can get from their local drugstore packaged in convenient white packets so people will remember to take them, along with automatic refills and 24/7 customer support. CNBC analyzes the deal and the horizon ahead. Lire la suite