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New hires at Amazon PillPack do ’empathy training’ by sorting pills while wearing bulky gloves

PillPack has an “empathy training” as part of its new hire orientation Christina Farr, CNBC “So the cat is dead,” said Rachel Sandler, a new hire at Amazon-owned PillPack, as a pill-shaped candy rolled onto the floor. Sandler was in the midst of the company’s new hire orientation at its Somerville, Mass., offices in early… Read More »

Amazon momentum in medical supply chain slows, poll finds

Dive Brief: Providers are allocating a smaller percentage of medical supply purchases to Amazon this year compared to 2018, though they’ve increased the percentage of non-medical office supplies buys, perhaps because companies receive higher discounts in office than medical supplies from the e-commerce giant, a survey of hospital purchasing managers by UBS found. This isn’t… Read More »

Why Amazon Could Have A Hard Time Getting Into Pharmacy – Forbes

A worker makes deliveries as a truck sits parked outside a Walgreens store in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Oct. 20, 2017.  Photo: Christopher Lee/Bloomberg In a boost for brick-and-mortar drugstore chains, J.D. Power says customer satisfaction remains high for pharmacies and the retail health services they provide. The independent analysis by J.D. Power comes… Read More »