- Walgreens will invest $1 billion in
equity and convertible debt in VillageMD to open 500 physician-led primary care
clinics in more than 30 U.S. markets in the next five years.
- VillageMD and Walgreens also recently announced the
availability of Village Medical telehealth providers on Walgreens Find Care™,
which is an online platform that connects patients with a wide range of health
services.
Walgreens
Boots Alliance, Inc. and VillageMD
announced today that Walgreens will be the
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Walgreens Boots Alliance, Microsoft, Adobe Expand Partnership to Launch Personalized Prescription for Patients
What You Should
Know:
- Today, Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Microsoft, and Adobe announced an expanded partnership launching a world-class marketing technology and customer data platform to deliver consistent, personalized, and engaging experiences across all touchpoints and channels while respecting and protecting privacy choices of patients and customers.
- Reaching millions of customers worldwide each day, WBA will streamline offers and deliver targeted products and services from
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Amazon, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Intermountain, Others Form COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition
What You Should Know:
The COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition is a
collaborative private-industry response to the novel coronavirus.
Its mission is to save lives by providing real-time
learning to preserve healthcare delivery and protect U.S. populations.
Coalition partners include Arcadia.io, athenahealth, Buoy
Health, the CommonWell Health Alliance, Epic, HCA Healthcare, Intermountain
Healthcare, LabCorp, Leavitt Partners, MassChallenge, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft,
MITRE, Rush
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b.well Connected Health Raises $16M for Personalized Health Platform
What You Need to Know:
- b.well raises $16 million in Series A funding led by UnityPoint Health Ventures, bringing the company's total funding to over $27 million.
- b.well provides a configurable digital platform to healthcare stakeholders to solve for interoperability and consolidation of point solutions through the lens of a consumer.
b.well Connected
Health, a Baltimore, MD-based platform designed to provide consumers a new
front end to healthcare, announced it has raised $16
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Executive Insights: Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2020
As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare industry executives to share their predictions and trends for 2020.
Robbie Hughes, Founder, and CEO, Lumeon
“Following the announcement of the Trump administration's price transparency requirement – and the ensuing backlash from hospital groups – the issue of price transparency will dominate the healthcare industry next year. Regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit, I expect we'll see more attention around the importance of the
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Analysis: November 2019 Health IT M&A Activity, Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners' (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of November 2019We did a doubletake when we noticed all of the HGP healthcare indices climbed approximately 10% during the month of November. Year-to-date, the S&P 500 is up over 25% and the HGP healthcare indices are all hovering in that range. In the two month period since September, when talk of universal healthcare reached
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Propeller Adds CVS, Walmart, Kroger, Rite-Aid to In-App Pharmacy Feature
- Propeller adds CVS, Walmart, Kroger and Rite-Aid pharmacy services to in-app pharmacy feature My Pharmacy, which launched in January with Walgreens. - With this update, Propeller users can now access pharmacy services from five of the seven largest pharmaceutical providers in the U.S., representing more than 50 percent of pharmacy market share, directly from the Propeller app. - The addition is a huge advantage for people who struggle with medication management and need a more convenient way
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Disruptors or Interrupters? How Apple Is Faring In Their Healthcare Initiatives
Key Highlights
- Part one of our new in-depth series on Apple, Google, and Amazon's latest healthcare efforts since our last report in April 2019.
- A look at Apple's recent healthcare developments, as well as an analysis of what goes beyond the news.
Over the last few decades the “digital age” has enabled many garage-based startups to transform into sustained successes by targeting problems that begged to be solved digitally. Sometimes their leaders identified and resolved
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Analysis: Impact of CVS, Walgreens, Walmart Retail Healthcare Expansion Strategies
- Recently, Walmart, CVS, and Walgreens have all announced their intent to invest in healthcare. Placer.ai, an advanced foot traffic analytics platform, analyzed their data to take the temperature of those efforts.- Walgreens experiences an even greater reliance on evening hour visits than CVS. Analyzing the period from January 2017 through August 2019, Walgreens saw 27.6% of visits come between the hours of 6 pm to 12 am. - The move into health services could provide a major boon for CVS,
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Philips Launches Expanded SmartSleep Suite of Solutions in US Market
- Philips launches its expanded SmartSleep suite of digital solutions in the US market to ultimately address approximately 80 percent of all sleep issues worldwide- Collaborative efforts with Walgreens, WebMD enhance consumer access to sleep information and solutions- The new SmartSleep solutions are now available for purchase on Philips.com, Walgreens.com, and BestBuy.com. SmartSleep Deep Sleep Headband and Snore Relief Band will begin to roll out to BestBuy stores across the United States in
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