Eli Lilly taps Amazon Pharmacy to dispense its prescription medicines
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Eli Lilly has struck a deal with Amazon Pharmacy to deliver its obesity, diabetes and migraine medicines directly to patients. Amazon will work through Lilly’s recently launched LillyDirect telehealth platform.
It’s the first time Amazon’s pharmacy business has worked directly with a drugmaker, establishing a new kind of direct relationship between the maker of a medication and the tech and retail giant. The new relationship differs from how medications are traditionally prescribed and then dispensed through a retail pharmacy, potentially disrupting elements of those businesses and creating a big business for Amazon Pharmacy.
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