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In addition to cofounding and leading Amwell , Schoenberg brings "a rare combination of clinical expertise, technology vision, and experience building health-care businesses at scale," Herrington wrote.
Dr. Roy Schoenberg will succeed Lindsay on July 1, Amazon's worldwide retail chief Doug Herrington wrote in a memo posted to the company's website. Lindsay will stay on as an advisor at Amazon until the end of the year, and plans to continue advising companies on health-care technology.
Neil Lindsay, who joined Amazon more than 15 years ago, has served as the senior vice president of Amazon Health Services since 2021 . AHS spans Amazon's online pharmacy service and primary care chain One Medical, among other initiatives.
Amazon 's top health-care boss will step down from his role and be replaced by the cofounder of telemedicine company Amwell , the company announced Wednesday.
Amazon has for years been on a mission to crack the multi-trillion dollar U.S. health-care industry, which is notoriously complex and inefficient. Its first big splash came in 2018 with the acquisition of online pharmacy PillPack for about $750 million, which led to the creation of its own offering called Amazon Pharmacy.
The company then bought One Medical for $3.9 billion in 2023, among its largest acquisitions ever, giving Amazon access to a chain of brick-and-mortar primary clinics and a robust membership base.
Amazon launched, then shuttered, a telehealth service. It also experimented with a line of health and fitness wearables, called Halo, before sunsetting the device as part of broader cost-cutting efforts.
Earlier this year, Amazon launched an artificial intelligence health tool that can analyze medical records, book appointments and answer queries.
Lindsay, who is a member of CEO Andy Jassy's senior leadership team, or S-team, didn't have a background in health-care. He previously led Amazon's Prime subscription business and managed worldwide marketing for its consumer devices.
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