Walgreens

Dr. Sashi Moodley, chief medical officer at Walgreens
By  Jessica Hagen 03:20 pm March 1, 2024
Last week, Walgreens announced its tech-enabled value-based care provider VillageMD would close clinics in Florida in a bid to increase profitability, and earlier this week confirmed to Becker's it would close all its Illinois clinics in April.   Chief medical officer at Walgreens, Dr. Sashi Moodley, sat down with MobiHealthNews at ViVE24 to discuss the current state of Walgreens work in...
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By  Jessica Hagen 05:16 pm December 1, 2023
Walgreens is collaborating with medication access and transparency technology company RxSense to launch a digital marketplace, Rx Savings Finder, where consumers can save money on medication by comparing prices on free third-party discount prescription cards. RxSense's SaaS platform allows companies to create a pharmacy benefits platform. The company offers analytics, prescription savings program...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:14 pm September 12, 2023
Walgreens announced it is partnering with Pearl Health, which offers a technology platform for primary care practices in value-based care arrangements, to expand value-based care options in collaboration with primary care providers.  Pearl Health offers a technology platform for primary care providers participating in Medicare's ACO REACH model. The platform includes data visualizations and...
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By  Jessica Hagen 10:37 am April 11, 2023
Walgreens is partnering with Cariloop, a tech platform that focuses on coaching and cloud-based support tools for caregivers, to offer multiple sclerosis patients and their caregivers access to coaching services through their neurology-specialty pharmacies.  Multiple sclerosis is a disease where a patient's immune system attacks the nervous system, causing scars around the protective sheath (...
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By  Jessica Hagen 10:32 am March 29, 2023
During Monday's ViVE event in Nashville, panelists discussed how to collect unbiased data through partnerships and by gaining trust and increasing accessibility within communities.   "Data is generated, input by individuals — by humans — and as humans, we all have implicit biases. The first part is to recognize, acknowledge what those are, learn what those may be for you so then you can help...
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By  Emily Olsen 11:44 am November 7, 2022
VillageMD, a primary care provider backed by Walgreens, announced Monday it had signed a definitive agreement to buy Summit Health, a multispecialty medical practice and parent company of urgent care provider CityMD. The deal is valued at $8.9 billion and includes investments from Walgreens Boots Alliance and Evernorth, the health services subsidiary of insurer Cigna. The acquisition marks...
A woman wearing a mask delivering medications.
By  Emily Olsen 10:37 am October 26, 2022
Walgreens is partnering with DoorDash and Uber Health to deliver Paxlovid, an oral antiviral therapy for COVID-19, to underserved communities. Through the partnership, eligible patients who live in disadvantaged communities as measured by the CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index can receive free delivery for their Paxlovid prescriptions on Walgreens.com or through the Walgreens app.   The...
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By  Emily Olsen 01:16 pm October 20, 2022
Though telehealth usage has declined from pandemic highs, the forces of consumerization and pressure from new retail companies could have a growing impact on the healthcare industry, according to a report by Trilliant Health.  The 2022 Trends Shaping the Health Economy analysis found that telehealth volumes peaked at 73.7 million visits in the second quarter of 2020 and that visits during the...
Walgreens Storefront
By  Jessica Hagen 11:09 am October 17, 2022
During an earnings call Thursday, Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Roz Brewer said the pharmacy retail giant plans to acquire a tech asset as it boosts its ambitions in healthcare. "We're making important strides and consistent progress in building our next growth engine, the U.S. healthcare segment," Brewer said on the call.  Brewer said Walgreens' healthcare strategy is "coming to life" and is far...