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General Medicine founder TJ Parker, Ashwin Muralidharan and Elliot Cohen.
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After selling online pillpack Amazon Seven years ago, the founding team starts a new company that aims to “buy the experience of medical care as easily as online”.
The Pillpack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen started a new company called General Medicine on Thursday. Parker and Cohen are accompanied by Ashwin Muralidharan, who most recently acted as a technical consultant or “Shadow” for Neil Lindsay, Executive Health Executive from Amazon.
General Medicine is an online marketplace for healthcare that can be connected to a provider that is based on certain medical needs or chats with someone about their symptoms. The platform can be used for a number of health needs, e.g. B. the securing of prescriptions or the localization of a specialist.
Users can pay with cash or insurance, with most large providers being accepted, the company said.
General Medicine is based on a mixture of own medical groups, networks of specialists and local providers, clinics and laboratories to ensure care.
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Parker and Cohen left Amazon in 2022, four years after Amazon had acquired Pillpack for about 750 million US dollars. General Medicine was founded in 2023 and began to serve patients at the beginning of this year before starting this month.
The company hopes to “create the terrible experience of American health care and access to excellent care”.
It is a similar goal of Amazon that is supposed to disrupt health care in the United States in recent years by using its “customer -obsessed” mentality and quick delivery functions. It had mixed success, sunbathing offers such as a telemedicine service and a fitness wearable.
The company operates Amazon Pharmacy, who was born from the Pillpack acquisition. In addition, in 2022 it acquired a provider of basic supplier One Medical for $ 3.9 billion and gives it both an online and an inpatient presence for health care.
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