I am feeling very ambiguous about Amazon Clinic. On one hand, the healthcare marketplace could really benefit from a disruptive player. On the other, the concentration of power, data collection, data mining and other consequences of extremely large players is worrisome, more so when regarding our health than consumer goods.
It probably was inevitable, because of the way that Modern Industrial Medicine has evolved, in the direction of more and more protocolisation and what has become of the once high hopes of Evidence Based Medicine. And maybe it is what we need, in an age of labour shortages, an rapidly ageing population and an imminent population collapse.
How will small providers of Traditional Chinese Medicine navigate this development? There may be just as many opportunities as challenges for them.
https://clinic.amazon.com/
