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Amazon<\/a>‘s top health-care boss will step down from his role and be replaced by the cofounder of telemedicine company Amwell<\/a>, the company announced<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n Neil Lindsay, who joined Amazon more than 15 years ago, has served as the senior vice president of Amazon Health Services since 2021<\/a>. AHS spans Amazon’s online pharmacy service<\/a> and primary care chain One Medical, among other initiatives. <\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n In addition to cofounding and leading Amwell<\/a>, Schoenberg brings “a rare combination of clinical expertise, technology vision, and experience building health-care businesses at scale,” Herrington wrote.<\/p>\n 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<\/a> for about $750 million, which led to the creation of its own offering called Amazon Pharmacy. <\/p>\n The company then bought One Medical<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n Amazon launched, then shuttered, a telehealth service<\/a>. It also experimented with a line of health and fitness wearables, called Halo<\/a>, before sunsetting the device as part of broader cost-cutting efforts. <\/p>\n Earlier this year, Amazon launched<\/a> an artificial intelligence health tool that can analyze medical records, book appointments and answer queries. <\/p>\n Lindsay, who is a member of CEO Andy Jassy’s senior leadership team, or S-team<\/a>, didn’t have a background in health-care. He previously led Amazon’s Prime subscription business and managed worldwide marketing for its consumer devices. <\/p>\n In a separate memo, Lindsay said he took on the role of leading AHS to hire clinicians, operators, technologists, and leaders “who understood health-care deeply” and could help Amazon grow its reach in the industry.<\/p>\n “Now is the right time to step back and pass the baton to a leader who knows how to navigate the next phase of this journey better than I,” Lindsay wrote. “I’m excited to do so.”<\/p>\n The transition marks the latest executive shakeup<\/a> in Amazon’s health-care unit. One Medical<\/a> lost its CEO last March, while Amazon’s chief medical officer departed last May. Amazon’s VP of health-care left in December to join Humana<\/a>. <\/p>\n