Amazon is looking to expand its healthcare supply chain business to become a major supplier for U.S. hospitals and outpatient clinics. The company is piloting a program with an unnamed Midwestern hospital system using its B2B marketplace, called Amazon Business, to fulfill supplies for about 150 outpatient facilities. Amazon's looking to build out a "marketplace concept" as a seller for hospitals and other providers. The concept will be an organization that differs from traditional distributor/manufacturer contract models. Both outpatient clinics and hospitals require a similar set of medical supplies, and the marketplace model could be built out to large medical devices for large hospital systems. It could also serve as a B2B provider marketplace where hospitals can sell devices they no longer use to other providers, creating a native business-to-business provider marketplace.
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