{"id":286891,"date":"2025-10-08T15:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/286891\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:59:12","slug":"amazon-is-putting-prescription-drugs-in-vending-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/286891\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is putting prescription drugs in vending machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Amazon is adding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/retail\/amazon-pharmacy-kiosks-one-medical\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vending machines stocked with prescription drugs<\/a> to its One Medical clinics, allowing patients to pick up their medications immediately after their appointment. A wide range of common prescriptions will be available for kiosk collection, including antibiotics, inhalers, and blood pressure medication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The company announced that the Amazon Pharmacy kiosks will be available at One Medical offices across Los Angeles starting in December, with plans to later expand to other locations. Amazon says the specific inventory for kiosks will vary based on the \u201cprescribing patterns of each office location,\u201d and that they won\u2019t distribute controlled substances or medications that require refrigeration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The vending machines aim to make it easier for people to collect essential meds without traveling to a dedicated pharmacy, helping to reduce delays and the number of prescriptions that never get filled. Patients can choose to have their provider send prescriptions to an Amazon Pharmacy for collection at in-office kiosks. These are then verified by one of the company\u2019s pharmacists, with patients able to check out using a QR code on the Amazon mobile app and collect their drugs \u201cin minutes,\u201d according to the press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWe know that when patients have to make an extra trip to the pharmacy after seeing their doctor, many prescriptions never get filled,\u201d Amazon Pharmacy operations president Hannah McClellan said in the announcement. \u201cBy bringing the pharmacy directly to the point of care, we\u2019re removing a critical barrier and helping patients start their treatment when it matters most \u2014 right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">People who use the Amazon Pharmacy kiosks will also have access to phone and video consultations with the company\u2019s pharmacy team to resolve queries about their medications, \u201cjust as they would at a traditional pharmacy counter,\u201d said McClellan. This comes as brick and mortar pharmacies across the US struggle against growing competition and falling drug margins, with Rite Aid, CVS, and Walgreens locations having shuttered in recent years \u2014 reducing access to in-person prescription pick-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon is adding vending machines stocked with prescription drugs to its One Medical clinics, allowing patients to pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":286892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2431,64,210,50,159,242,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-286891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115339379720815244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}