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🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In buying One Medical, Amazon is primed to be your doctor. Are they disrupting health care, or just collecting more data?

Guest: Rebecca Pifer

Host: Lizzie O'Leary


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0:00.0

What do I do?

0:01.2

What do I do?

0:02.4

What do I say?

0:03.6

What do I say?

0:30.0

Lamu Coker got his membership to one medical through work.

0:37.9

It was within the building that we currently are in New York.

0:41.7

His job at Google paid the membership fee, and he had access to the company's roster

0:45.8

of primary care doctors, in-person clinics, and telehealth.

0:49.9

And they had ample amounts of appointment times, and frankly, a diversity of doctors

0:55.8

available, as African-American, that's important to find doctors that you think can service

1:02.6

your own needs.

1:03.6

Later, when his wife got pregnant, it was incredibly convenient.

1:07.6

It was great to have the virtual appointments, where you could just call them up the nurse

1:10.5

at any point in time, and they could handle it.

1:12.1

So it's been a great service, and I found great value from it.

1:15.3

Now with the news that Amazon is buying one medical, Lamu is trying to think through

1:20.0

whether he'll stay as a patient.

1:22.2

On the one hand, he's really like the care.

1:24.9

On the other, Lamu works in tech, and he understands the value of consumer data.

1:30.5

And when that's healthcare data, it gives him some pause.

1:34.0

Amazon has a lot of different personalized data about a lot of different people.

1:38.4

What does that mean for privacy in the future?

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