Amazon is building a ‘health & wellness’ team within Alexa as it aims to upend health care

The nucleus of Amazon’s effort to upend the health-care market may very well be the Echo device in your living room. According to an internal document obtained by CNBC, Amazon has built a team within its Alexa voice-assistant division called “health & wellness,” which includes over a dozen people and is being led by Rachel Jiang, who has spent the last 5 years at Amazon in various roles including advertising and video.
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