Life & Health

Although Berkshire and JPMorgan also bring lots of employees to the alliance, Amazon is key to thinking big, starting small and learning fast.

The pharmaceutical pricing system is opaque and perverse — and it’s the only system we know. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Most so-called innovation in healthcare is the equivalent of trying to optimize oil lamp technology to get better lighting in homes and cities.

Last week's announcement of a healthcare venture by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase may finally shift the debate in the U.S.

Those who buy healthcare at employers and unions are acutely aware that they’re being taken advantage of by every industry sector.

Many experts discount the Amazon/Berkshire Hathaway/JPMorgan announcement, but the effects could well be far-reaching.

Healthcare payers and providers are discovering the value of sharing vast amounts of data -- but this must be just the beginning.

The great news is that every fix to healthcare's structural problems has been invented -- and you can massively scale them.