MEwens
Walmart wants to make a big push into primary health care — or does it?
As NPR and Kaiser Health News report, the retailing behemoth has sent out a 14-page request for information seeking vendors to help it become the “largest provider of primary healthcare services” in the U.S. That, Walmart says in its […]
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MEwens
End of an Alliance: Eli Lilly and Amylin Pharmaceuticals yesterday said they’d scrapped their diabetes-drug partnership, with Amylin paying $250 million to Lilly upfront and as much as $1.2 billion later depending on sales of drugs containing the molecule exenatide, the WSJ reports. The original drug, Byetta, hasn’t been as successful as was […]
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JGrimes
Drugstores are trying to bolster their presence in the in-store clinic market, even though the concept has thus far not been a particularly profitable one. The WSJ reports that CVS Caremark may double its number of MinuteClinic retail operations over the next five years.
The company has no plans to forge financial partnerships with […]
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JGrimes
After months of standing in line trying for adequate shipments of the H1N1 vaccine, pharmacies, supermarkets and other retailers with in-store clinics now are trying to make the most of an influx of supply now becoming more widely available.
“Right now there’s probably more supply than demand,” Troyen A. Brennan, chief medical officer at […]
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JGrimes
The business of operating retail health clinics in pharmacies, supermarkets and big-box discount stores has gone through fits and starts in the last couple of years, as we have recounted here, here and here.
Today, a new report from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions says more challenges await, including labor shortages, compensation inflation, […]
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JGrimes
Over the past couple years, retail clinics — little clinics in pharmacies and big-box stores — have had their ups and downs; CVS temporarily closed 90 of its MinuteClinics earlier this year, and many of the clinics in Wal-Mart stores shut down when the companies that ran the clinics went out of business.
One […]
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JGrimes
Health clinics in retail stores like Wal-Mart, Walgreens and CVS are expanding services to treat chronic health conditions, as we’ve written about before, but what’s prompting the expansion?
It’s because demand for basic health services in retail settings — like flu shots — has fizzled, according to today’s WSJ.
CVS temporarily closed 90 of its […]
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JGrimes
Pharmacy chains Walgreens and CVS are expanding the services offered in their retail clinics, moving beyond colds and common infections to treat chronic health conditions like asthma.
After deciding not to expand the number of retail clinics, the pharmacies are instead trying to “create a health corner — a real center that looks like […]
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Jacob Goldstein
Pharmacy chains Walgreens and CVS are expanding the services offered in their retail clinics, moving beyond colds and common infections to treat chronic health conditions like asthma.
After deciding not to expand the number of retail clinics, the pharmacies are instead trying to “create a health corner — a real center that looks […]
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JGrimes
In what may be an ominous sign for retail clinics, CVS Caremark has closed about 90 of some 550 MinuteClinic locations until the next flu season or other “seasonal” needs demand their services, Dow Jones Newswires reports.
This is the first time CVS has put any of its clinics on a “seasonal” schedule: spring […]
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