HEALTHCARE: Cyber Security and Amazon’s Iora Healthcare Quality Down?

Posted on March 10, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters

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Stat: According to HIPPA, and the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, there were 725 “large” reported healthcare security breaches in the US last year. Experts say health organizations suffer from a lack of basic security measures, and are being targeted by “increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.” (The HIPAA Journal)

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Quote: “Having a [doctor] who can coordinate your healthcare and is willing to do so on a personal basis was very important to me. And I really feel like that is completely gone, and I feel like it happened overnight.”—Deborah Wood, an older adult patient at primary care provider Iora Health, where some patients say care quality has worsened after Amazon acquired its parent company One Medical in 2022 (the Washington Post)

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DAILY UPDATE: T-Market Crash, Amazon Healthcare Launches as the Markets Take a Breather

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters

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  • Big banks are sitting on $650 billion of unrealized losses, Moody’s has estimated.
  • It’s a sign even Wall Street’s best-known names are feeling the heat from the Treasury-market rout.
  • Crashing bond prices sank Silicon Valley Bank earlier this year, and there may be more chaos to come.

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Yet, the billionaire Larry Fink says investors should be 100% in equities right now if they can handle it? Can you?

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Amazon.com is turning to Prime members to bolster its healthcare business, an industry where the company has sought to expand for years. The tech giant just revealed plans to offer its millions of Amazon Prime subscribers a low-cost annual membership to One Medical, the primary-care business Amazon purchased for $3.9 billion earlier this year. Amazon says Prime subscribers can now become One Medical members for $9 a month, or $99 a year. The typical cost to become a One Medical member is $199 annually.

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The S&P 500 continued to an eighth positive day, building on its longest hot streak in two years, while the Dow inched downward, ending its best run since July. Warner Bros. Discovery suffered its worst day since March 2021 after reporting that although Barbie raked in $1.5 billion for the company, it still lost money last quarter.

Here is where the major benchmarks ended:

  • The S&P 500 Index was up 4.40 points (0.1%) at 4,382.78; the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 40.33 points (0.1%) at 34,112.27; the NASDAQ Composite was up 10.56 points (0.1%) at 13,650.41.
  • The 10-year Treasury note yield (TNX) was down about 6 basis points at 4.511%.
  • CBOE’s Volatility Index (VIX) was down 0.36 at 14.45.

Retailers and banks were among the weakest performers Wednesday. Energy stocks also slipped in step with WTI crude oil futures, which touched a 3½-month low of under $75 a barrel on escalating concern over global demand. Real estate was one of the few sectors to rise Wednesday.

The U.S. dollar index (DXY) rose to a seven-week high earlier in the day before fading.

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AMAZON Buys “One Medical”

Posted on July 24, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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By Neal Freyman [Morning Brew]

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Amazon turned and coughed up $3.9 billion to buy One Medical, a primary care provider, in its biggest push yet into health care. It may not be long until your Prime membership comes with a complimentary physical.

What’s One Medical? A company that operates more than 180 medical offices across 25 US markets, offering both in-person and virtual medical services. When it went public as a unicorn in January 2020, it followed a similar trajectory of other high-flying startups: A huge spike when telehealth was in feverish demand, then an equally huge crash to fall well below its IPO price.

The deal for One Medical represents Andy Jassy’s first major acquisition as CEO of Amazon, showing that he’s willing to make bets on growth in certain areas even as he reins in costs in others.

So why is health care a priority?

As you know all too well from every time you pay a medical bill, health care is a massive industry. With a market size of $4 trillion, it accounts for about 20% of the entire US economy. And as Amazon looks to grow outside of its core areas, it sees potential in sending a digital shock wave through a medical industry that’s entangled in a complex web of insurance companies and government regulations.

Not that it’s even clear what a “core” area of Amazon is anymore. Besides its e-commerce marketplace, Amazon has tentacles in cloud services, grocery stores, entertainment, and many other sectors. Basically, we’re about to live in a world where one company owns the James Bond franchise…and also medical clinics.

But Amazon’s infatuation with health care isn’t new. It acquired the online pharmacy PillPack in 2018, and launched its own on-demand health care services one year later. Some projects, like its buzzy joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan, collapsed, illustrating the challenges for anyone—even Bezos and Buffett—to break into the medical realm.

Those stumbles won’t stop Amazon, or Big Tech in general, from trying. Just this week, Apple released a 60-page report outlining why health care will be a major focus for the company going forward.—NF

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