Amazon Diagnostics Launched in India, Offers Doorstep Sample Collection in Six Cities

Amazon India on Sunday introduced the launch of its diagnostics companies in the nation. The new Amazon Diagnostics service from the e-commerce large facilitates the pickup of take a look at samples from a buyer’s doorstep. Users can ebook lab checks, schedule and observe appointments, and entry digital studies by way of the Amazon app. The service, which was developed in partnership with Orange Health Labs, has been rolled out in six cities in India.

Amazon Diagnostics Launched in Partnership With Orange Health Labs

The firm revealed that its diagnostics service can be obtainable in six cities, together with Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Mumbai, and Hyderabad. Customers can entry Amazon Diagnostics by way of a devoted web page on the Orange Health Labs web site, the place they’ll ebook lab checks on-line, schedule and observe appointments, and entry digital studies.

Amazon says customers can ebook a take a look at and have its supply companions choose up the samples in below 60 minutes between 6am and 10pm. For routine checks, customers can get the digital studies again inside six hours. The service his at present obtainable in greater than 450 pin codes, and gives over 800 diagnostics checks.

Amazon Diagnostics is an enlargement of the corporate’s medical companies in the nation. It already gives digital consultations with medical doctors by way of Amazon Clinic and doorstep supply of prescription medicines by way of Amazon Pharmacy.

The firm additionally claims that it’s integrating an end-to-end expertise with options similar to real-time slot visibility, map-based deal with validation, and safe digital report entry by way of the Amazon Health dashboard. Amazon says that it’s going to observe the “stringest data privacy and quality standards,” however hasn’t shared particulars about these options.

With Amazon Diagnostics, the tech large has entered India’s $15 billion (roughly Rs. 1.3 lakh crore) diagnostics market, which is basically pushed by giant firms and smaller labs primarily as an on-site lab-testing service. At-home diagnostics companies have solely come up in the final decade, and have become well-liked in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.