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Amazon adds new Prime benefit with One Medical virtual and in-person health care service

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Amazon’s Prime One Medical membership benefit includes 24/7 virtual care through the service’s app. For $9 a month, or $99 a year, Prime members can get access to One Medical’s on-demand virtual care or in-office care at locations across the U.S. and pay for these visits with insurance or out of pocket.

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Amazon launching ‘Amazon Clinic,’ a virtual health service intended to treat a variety of conditions

GeekWire

The Seattle tech giant announced Tuesday that it’s launching “Amazon Clinic,” a new virtual care platform that uses message-based interaction to connect customers with third-party telehealth providers. The service will initially operate in 32 states, and does not yet accept insurance. (Amazon Image).

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Patient data is at greater risk than ever. AI can help

CIO Business Intelligence

Sensitive personal and medical information can be used in multiple ways, from identity theft and insurance fraud to ransomware attacks. Patient data represents a treasure trove for hackers. It’s little wonder that data theft is increasingly common in the healthcare sector.

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Seattle healthcare startup 98point6 selling part of its business for $100M to Transcarent

GeekWire

The deal will include the virtual care platform and primary care business of Seattle-based 98point6, which provides care in all 50 states. 98point6 will relaunch as 98point6 Technologies, a software-only company focused on licensing its tech to third-party healthcare providers. The transaction is expected to close March 31.

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AI in the cloud pays dividends for Liberty Mutual

CIO Business Intelligence

As the Boston-based insurance company’s journey to the cloud has unfolded, it has also maintained a select set of datacenters from which to run legacy applications more economically than they would on the cloud, as well as software from vendors that make licensing on the cloud less attractive.

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Tech Moves: Former Rover CTO joins moving startup Dolly; Egencia’s CFO to depart; and more

GeekWire

A longtime engineering leader at Rover, he left the pet care startup last year and served as VP of engineering at virtual healthcare startup 98point6 for less than a year. Regi Vengalil , the CFO at Expedia Group’s corporate travel business unit Egencia, will be departing in May to join pay-per-mile auto insurer Metromile as CFO.

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Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes

GeekWire

The half-day program runs for four weeks in the summer and is virtual so that it can reach a larger geographical area, including rural areas of Washington state. To accomplish this, the organization guarantees rent payment and promises $5,000 in damage insurance for two years.

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