Amazon launched its Amazon Business platform three years ago, providing an avenue for healthcare providers to order online, Home Health Care News reports.
Here are six things to know:
1. More than 1 million business customers use the platform to order products ranging from office supplies to medical equipment.
2. Amazon Business services home healthcare providers, doctors, nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, ASCs and more.
3. The platform is meant to solve traditional purchasing method problems, such as finding multiple supply vendors and ordering catalogue inventory.
4. The online experience offers providers inventory visibility of ordering needs, Amazon Business Global Healthcare Leader Chris Holt told HHCN.
5. Within the Amazon Business account, an organization with multiple sites can examine what does and doesn't work well for purchasing across all locations and share best practices.
6. Wilsonville, Ore.-based senior living provider Avamere Health Services uses Amazon Business as a secondary vendor for items it can't obtain from preferred vendors.
"[We] offer [the service] to businesses of all sizes — single doctors and offices with five employees or a 10,000-employee system, and everything in between," Mr. Holt told HHCN. "What we're trying to do is take that work purchasing experience and 'Amazon it.'"