Foulkes discusses CVS Caremark's integrated business at Wharton Health Care Conference
CVS Caremark's chief healthcare strategy officer on Friday outlined how the company's integrated offerings — retail pharmacy, pharmacy benefit management and retail clinics — are helping patients achieve better health by working to increase medication adherence and targeting behaviors to improve treatment for chronic diseases during a panel discussion at the Wharton Health Care Business Conference.
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Post a CommentCVS transformed retail-based
CVS transformed retail-based clinics from an entrepreneurial start up concept to a national network of branded primary care centers. When they rapidly followed with the Caremark acquisition, they blew past 107 year old Walgreens and challenged the American healthcare industry to think beyond its assumption that healthcare is and will remain a local business.
Since then, however, they have not maintained their leadership in the retail clinic field, failing to recognize, as Walgreens did, that the stand alone, start up, nurse practitioner clinic model is not sustainable.
Similarly, their alignment with the Cleveland Clinic has yet to deploy what could be a highly innovative model of integrated health services, connecting patients, nurses, physicians and homes electronically to deliver truly world class care at affordable prices. Under Ms. Foulkes' leadership the company may again rise to the forefront of healthcare innovation, as the entire country prepares for the opportunities coming in 2014 and beyond.
Ron Hammerle, Chairman
Health Resources, Ltd.
Tampa, Florida