Retail Clinics

In the past year, the company said 1,500 veterans have been treated at the 25 Phoenix-area MinuteClinic locations participating in its joint initiative between the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and TriWest Healthcare Alliance.

Marc-David Munk, who the company said will oversee MinuteClinic’s patient care efforts with a focus on clinical care, was most recently chief medical officer Boston-based health system Iora Health.

CVS Health has added a MinuteClinic to its CVS Pharmacy location inside the University of Chicago Medicine Center for Advanced Care building.

The telehealth center will be placed in 26 Publix Pharmacy locations, where patients can receive non-urgent medical care from physicians though teleconferencing.

Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreens will be introducing the first implementations of its new store format later this spring, or in early summer, executives said Monday night at the 36th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The new format will mark the first major overhaul of the core Walgreens format since the finalization of its merger with Alliance Boots in December 2014.

Another year, another pending merger that promises to shake up the retail pharmacy business as we know it. Only, unlike the scrapped merger between Walgreens and Rite Aid, CVS Health’s proposed acquisition of health insurer Aetna has the potential to upend the whole healthcare landscape, putting it in competition with other retailers on one front and with leading insurers on another.

The latest has been reported upon in Walgreens Flu Index. The weekly report which was developed to provide state and market-specific information regarding flu activity has all signs pointing to Texas once again.

For the second week in a row, The Flu Index is reporting that the Lone Star state is holding the top spot for flu activity for the week ending Dec. 16.

Walgreens is making a push to bring telemedicine services to stores through a new partnership with NewYork-Presbyterian. The partnership will bring access to telehealth services from New York’s top hospital via NYP OnDemand kiosks for shoppers at the Deerfield, Ill.-based retailer’s Duane Reade banner, as well as through its digital properties.