DENVER — Retailers and vendors shared their experiences on the exhibit floor at the 2015 Total Store Expo in this NACDS-TV day three report. Hear from Luke Barnes of Ahold USA, who says the food and drug retailer is converting to a new pharmacy system; Arthur Dion of Walmart and Sam’s Club, who discusses health
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — Almost two in five U.S. adults have missed a life event because of flu-like symptoms, according to a survey from CVS/pharmacy. CVS said Monday that the online survey of over 2,000 adults, conducted by Harris Poll, found that 37% of respondents missed out on a social or work occasion because they felt
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health is launching a new pharmacy service, ScriptSync, enabling patients with multiple medications to pick up eligible maintenance prescriptions in a monthly visit to a CVS/pharmacy store. Patients or caregivers can manage ScriptSync prescriptions with what the company calls innovative online support tools. By aligning prescription fill schedules for customers, CVS
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health Research Institute experts have urged cardiologists to consider changing their treatment guidelines for patients with high cholesterol as a new class of high-cost medications arrives on the market. A commentary published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association on August 10 argued that the new cholesterol-lowering drugs, known
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — Retail clinic patients find the telehealth experience very satisfying, according to a CVS Health Research Institute study of a pilot program at MinuteClinic. CVS said Tuesday that satisfaction with quality of care and other factors were measured among patients participating in a telehealth technology pilot conducted at MinuteClinic locations in California and
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health has finalized its $12.9 billion acquisition of Omnicare, a leading provider of pharmacy services to long-term care facilities. The completion of the deal, announced Tuesday, came well ahead of the timetable that CVS initially reported when it unveiled the Omnicare acquisition agreement in May. At the time, CVS said it
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health is launching a new pharmacy service called ScriptSync, which promises to make it easier and more convenient for patients to take multiple medications as prescribed. The service allows patients with multiple medications to pick up their eligible maintenance prescriptions in a monthly visit to their CVS/pharmacy, instead of requiring them
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health and IBM Corp. are partnering to provide patients suffering from chronic diseases with improved services for health care management. The agreement, which was announced July 30, will allow pharmacists and practitioners from CVS Health to benefit from the state-of-the-art computing capabilities of IBM’s premier supercomputer Watson in analyzing massive amounts
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health saw sales climb in the second quarter and posted adjusted earnings per share in line with Wall Street’s forecast, despite the impact of costs from its pending Omnicare and Target pharmacy acquisitions. CVS said Tuesday that for the three months ended June 30, total sales rose 7.4% to $37.2 billion from
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health has formed new clinical affiliations with Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Kansas and Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania. CVS said Thursday that through the clinical collaborations, it will provide prescription and visit information to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and Lehigh Valley Health Network by enabling communication between their electronic health record
WOONSOCKET, R.I. and ARMONK, N.Y. — CVS Health and IBM are pooling their expertise in predictive analytics and leveraging the information technology giant’s Watson cognitive computing platform to improve care management for patients with chronic diseases. The companies said Thursday that the partnership will enable health care practitioners to quickly and easily gain insights from stores of
NEW YORK — The retail health clinic market is seeing competition intensify as the leading players expand their reach with new locations. Market leader MinuteClinic, part of CVS Health, got a big boost last month with CVS’ $1.9 billion deal to buy the pharmacy and clinic business of Target Corp. With the move, the approximately
CHICAGO — CVS Health, Walgreens, Walmart and Target are among more than a dozen U.S.-based companies forming the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, an employer-led coalition that aims to create pathways to jobs for America’s young people. The coalition has set a goal to engage at least 100,000 “Opportunity Youth” — 16- to 24-year-olds who face systemic
NEW YORK — CVS Health is leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of its stance on global anti-smoking laws, a company spokesman confirmed. Published reports said Tuesday that CVS is withdrawing its membership from the national business lobbying group in the wake of a New York Times article last week that spotlighted the chamber’s
