Workplace & Retail Clinic Bulletin
          Workplace & Retail Clinic Bulletin                                             November 2016
     

Identity Management: How successful PBMs and retail pharmacies use targeted analytics to integrate managing patient and member identity

  Sponsor Message
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"By creating a healthcare delivery model that responds to patient demand, MinuteClinic makes access to low-cost, high-quality primary care easier for more Americans, including underserved populations. MinuteClinic helps to fill the gap in the healthcare system by providing additional, affordable access for patients between visits to their primary care physician and keeping them away from unnecessary and costly emergency room visits."
-Eileen Howard Boone, President of the CVS Health Foundation
 
Factoid 
"27% of physicians say the biggest change they expect to result from millennial patient habits in coming years is proliferation of walk-in clinic settings."

Source: Sermo
   
News 
  Baptist Health and Walgreens announce a collaboration
Jacksonville, November 16, 2016

CCA touts retail clinic value, even when it comes to ED visits
Drug Store News, November 16, 2016

Association Between the Opening of Retail Clinics and Low-Acuity ED Visits
Annals of Emergency Medicine, November 14, 2016

The Evolving Role of Retail Clinics
Rand Corporation, November 14, 2016

Retail and Urgent Care Clinics: A Growing Phenomenon
US News, November 3, 2016

 
Blogs
Patient Education and Improving Access to Quality Healthcare
Triple Pundit, November 7, 2016

What do the Ford Model T, retail clinics, and MACRA have in common?
Deloitte Blog, October 25, 2016

   
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Target Pharmacy Complaints
 
  More Americans Using Retail Clinics

Roughly six million Americans are treated in medical clinics inside of drug stores, but that hasn't cut down on visits to the ER. Fox 47 News covers the new research in this video.

 

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