Founders of the Startup of the Amazon Pillpack Pillpack Health Market

After selling online pharmacy Pillpack for Amazon Seven years ago, the founding team is launching a new company that aims to make the experience of obtaining medical attention “as easy as buying online.”

The founders of Pillpack, TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, launched a new company called General Medicine on Thursday. Parker and Cohen join Ashwin Muroidharan, who recently served as a technical advisor, or “Shadow”, the main health executive of Amazon, Neil Lindsay.

General medicine is an online medical care market, where users can connect with a supplier based on specific medical needs or chat with someone about their symptoms. The platform can be used for a variety of health needs, such as ensuring recipes or locating a specialist.

Users can pay with cash or safe, with most of the main accepted suppliers, the company said.

General medicine is based on a combination of their own medical groups, networks of local specialists and suppliers, clinics and laboratories to provide care.

Parker and Cohen left Amazon in 2022, four years after Amazon acquired Pillpack for around $ 750 million. General medicine was founded in 2023 and began serving patients earlier this year before launching widely this month.

The company says he hopes to address “the terrible experience of American medical care and create access to excellent attention.”

It is a similar objective in the possession of Amazon, which has tried to interrupt medical care in the US. In recent years, applying its mentality “obsessed with the client” and rapid delivery capabilities. It has had a mixed success, in the sun, some offerings such as a Telesalud service and a fitness use.

The company operates Amazon Pharmacy, which was born from the acquisition of Pillpack. He also acquired the One Medical Primary Care Supplier in 2022 for $ 3.9 billion, which gives him a presence of online and mortar medical care.

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