Online behemoth Amazon has jumped into the pharmacy business, buying startup PillPack for about $1 billion, the company announced. If the deal is the death knell of traditional dispensing-based community pharmacy, as some pundits predict, what will it leave in its wake?
How about a more vibrant, patient-focused pharmacy profession? That’s the hope, if not prediction, of at least one industry watcher asked to comment on the Amazon deal.
But first, the details. Launched in 2013,