Amazon Pharmacy is launching vending machines for prescription drugs

Amazon Declaration Wednesday that it is debuting on the prescription vending machine at a medical clinic. Let the new office run by Amazon Pharmacy, let patients pick up their prescriptions immediately after their appointment.

Amazon Pharmacy can be found in Kiosk A medical position Starting in December in Los Angeles, and Amazon planned to expand soon more.

After writing a prescription of a supplier, patients may choose to send it to the Amazon Pharmacy for in-office kiosk pickup. Then patients use their phone to check out the Amazon app, then the drugs are usually “ready within minutes”, say Amazon.

The kiosk contains a range of commonly prescribed drugs, including antibiotics, inhaler and blood pressure drugs. Amazon notes that the list of kiosk is customized based on the prescribed patterns of its specific office location and the necessary controlled substances and drugs of the refrigerator are not available through Kiosk.

Patients will be able to use the Amazon app to see the front expenditure with available discounts and estimated insurance copies and connect to the licensed pharmacist through video or phone advice if needed.

“We know that when patients have to make additional trip to pharmacy after seeing their doctor, many prescriptions are never fulfilled,” Hanna McClalan, vice president of the Amazon Pharmacy Operation, said at one Press releaseThe

US Pharmacy Chains are fighting; Right Aid last week All of the rest of the store is off; CVS has closed more than a thousand stores since 2021; And Wallgren’s has closed 500 stores in the last one year.

Amazon’s new kiosk can further disrupt the brick-and-mortar pharmacy businesses.

The introduction of Kiosk identifies Amazon’s latest step to expand its presence in the healthcare sector. In 2018, Amazon Online Pharmaceutical Bought Pilpack 50 750 million and then Amazon has launched the pharmacy In the 2020. Two years later, it bought it One medical on primary care providerThe