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This article is exactly what a skeptic suspects: Amazon had a vision, rushed to roll it out quickly, and didn't care about its many shortcomings falling short o
by CatWChainsaw 4y ago
This article is exactly what a skeptic suspects: Amazon had a vision, rushed to roll it out quickly, and didn't care about its many shortcomings falling short of the law, best practice, or its own stated goal of quality health care. Some gems included: forcing patients to hang up and dial other numbers; asking nurses to store blood samples in their own cars; not collecting emergency contact information by default, settling for subpar medical software; and ignoring nurse safety concerns on house visits. There was also a remark that suggested Amazon would really like to take a "yeah, no" approach to HIPAA - gotta get that sweet sweet lucrative medical data, after all.
>The former telehealth nurse remembered an Amazon staffer telling her, “You know, a lot of people here consider you the warehouse workers of Amazon Care.”
I don't really want the person treating me to have a warehouse worker's skill set, and be evaluated on a warehouse worker's criteria.
- tomByrer 4y ago> asking nurses to store blood samples in their own cars Happens more often than you think, even outside Amazon.
- dwighttk 4y agoAnd disposing of medical waste at home… Amazon didn’t want to build a central hub.
- ghufran_syed 4y agoDiabetics "dispose" of medical waste all the time - they just need a sharps bin at home that they put their needles into, then either drop it off at an appropriate disposal facility or have it picked up. Doesn't seem particularly surprising or dangerous not me, there's nothing magical about a physical health clinic that makes the sharps bins work any differently there...
- dwighttk 4y agoOne persons worth of medical waste vs multiple patients’