December 5, 2017 by CDR Blog and Chain Drug Review
Bruce Carlson, CVS Health, CVS-Aetna merger, in-store health clinic, Kalorama Information, MinuteClinic, retail clinic market, Retail Clinics 2017: The Game-Changer in Healthcare, walk-in medical clinic
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While the changes that CVS Health’s $69 billion deal to buy Aetna may bring to the health care sector remain unclear, it’s very likely that a big beneficiary of deal would be MinuteClinic, says one market researcher. “Now these retail clinics in effect become in-house health care providers for Aetna,” explained Bruce Carlson, publisher at
March 20, 2017 by CDR Blog and Chain Drug Review
Bruce Carlson, in-store clinics, Kalorama Information, retail clinic, retail health clinics
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In recent years, physician groups have knocked the growth of retail health clinics as an encroachment on their turf. But health care market researcher Kalorama Information says that’s not necessarily the case. Consumers who have visited a retail clinic in the past year are much more apt to have seen a physician in that time
July 16, 2015 by Chain Drug Review
Bruce Carlson, CVS Health, CVS/pharmacy, Danielle Barrera, Healthcare Clinic, Kalorama Information, Kroger, MinuteClinic, RediClinic, retail clinic, retail health clinics, Rite Aid, The Little Clinic, Walgreens, walk-in medical clinic
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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
April 28, 2015 by Chain Drug Review and Chain Drug Review
Bruce Carlson, in-store clinics, Kalorama Information, Retail Clinics 2015
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NEW YORK — The convenience of in-store clinics may lead consumers to go to a doctor’s office less when they need primary health care, according to Kalorama Information’s “Retail Clinics 2015” report. The health care market researcher said Tuesday that of 2,000 adults surveyed, 53.5% said they were visiting the physician’s office less because of the presence of a
April 2, 2015 by Chain Drug Review and Chain Drug Review
Kalorama Information, retail clinics
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Half of visitors to retail clinics go there because of a cold or flu, according to health care market researcher Kalorama Information. In survey of 2,000 U.S. adults, Kalorama found that about 700 have visited a retail health clinic. The reasons they cited for going to a clinic included vaccination (named by 74%), cold/flu (55%),