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Walgreens Ups the Ante in Retail Health
Yesterday, mega-pharmacy chain Walgreens announced that it will acquire I-trax and Whole Health Management. With this acquisition, Walgreens is moving beyond its recent venture into retail clinics in...
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Google Health Goes Live – Quick Analysis
Late this afternoon, Google Health Beta officially opened its doors for anyone to sign-up. While I did predict they would go live in the 2nd quarter, I was thinking end of the quarter, not the...
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2008, What was Hot, What was Not
One of the nice things about all the writing done over the past year is that one can go back, apply some analytics and see exactly what topics/posts were popular over the past year. So, drumroll...
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What’s In Store for 2009: Top Ten Trends & Forecast
Maintaining a tradition among IT analyst firms, following is Chilmark Research’s forecast of Top Trends for 2009. While there is a significant amount of “crystal ball gazing” in any forecast, 2009 is...
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The Digital Pharmacy: Walgreens’ Emerging Strategy
The Walgreens PR team has been busy of late, announcing a spate of partnerships that aim to transform them from a brick-and-mortar retail pharmacy into a digital one-stop shop for health care...
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Reality Check on the Retail Health Spending Survey
By now you’ve probably seen the Health Affairs study (and requisite mainstream media coverage) stipulating that retail health clinics actually add to the nation’s healthcare spending by encouraging the...
View ArticlePush for Interop – Two Initiatives Lead Way
Competing Platforms HIEs only add value to patient encounters when clinicians are connected to them. The capability to provide clinical information exchange is a great tool for clinicians when they...
View ArticleConsumer-Driven Models of Care: Healthcare’s New Front Door
The Revolution One of the trending topics in healthcare right now is that of the “consumer revolution.” With so many changes happening – the way care is being delivered, who is paying for it, how...
View ArticleConsumer-Driven Forces Disrupting Primary Care
Growth & Change The traditional model of consuming healthcare services is changing. Frustrated consumers – accustomed to the technological advances that have improved air travel, retail, and a host...
View ArticleCombatting the Cadillac Tax With Wellness
Happy is Productive The Affordable Care Act’s so-called “Cadillac tax” of high-priced employer insurance plans has drawn the ire of Presidential candidates, members of Congress, and the general public....
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Humana-Walgreens Partnership: Primary Care Focused on Medicare Advantage
Key Takeaways: Humana and Walgreens jointly announced a partnership for Human to operate senior-focused primary care clinics in Walgreens stores. This comes as a response to a clear industry need for...
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Walgreens ‘Front Door to Care’ Strategy is Building Horizontally
Key Takeaways: Walgreens ‘front door to care’ strategy is built around multiple horizontal partnerships. There are questions about how quickly these partnerships can scale to meet investors’ concerns...
View ArticleTop Health IT predictions for 2021
AI-generated transcript follows: John Moore III: [00:00:00] Hi again, welcome back to Chilmark Research. My name is John Moore and I’m a vice president here. This week we sat down with the team to...
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What Predictions will Befall?
Here we go again; another year, another prediction post. The Chilmark team has reviewed countless other predictions for 2022 and found most quite lacking – usually just stating the obvious, e.g.,...
View ArticleRetail Giants Seize Another Healthcare Opportunity
Walgreens Follows CVS Into Clinical Trials Market We often think of pharmaceutical or life sciences companies as having the most sophisticated tools and technologies available, given the complexity...
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