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January 11, 2013
Retailers take part in transition to quality-based healthcare model and get paid

Walgreens' Arkansas Payment Improvement Initiative aims to create a more patient-centered and cost-efficient payment system for the retailer's home state.

The latest move by Walmart is as sure an indication as any that health care is becoming less about fee-for-service and more about basing compensation on ratings derived from patient outcomes.

August 20, 2012
Target Clinics, Duke Medicine enter new relationship for four new clinics in N.C.

Target Clinic has inked a new strategic relationship with healthcare system Duke Medicine in an effort to provide greater access to care at four new Target Clinic locations in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., which opened on July 29.

August 17, 2012
The expanding role of pharmacy in ACOs

While the ultimate impact of healthcare reform is still being debated, one trend is clear: Accountable care organizations continue to pick up steam. An ACO is a unique healthcare delivery model defined as a network of healthcare providers who share responsibility for coordinating high-quality care across a specific patient population.

August 17, 2012
The retailization of health care

Online Groupons for health services? Doctors and hospitals sharing patient data and treatment goals with retail clinics, pharmacies and urgent care centers? Hospitals luring patients with inviting atriums and indoor waterfalls?

August 1, 2012
Mass. lawmakers pass healthcare bill that expands use of limited-service clinics

Massachusetts lawmakers passed a massive healthcare bill that seeks to control healthcare costs and expands the services of limited-service clinics to allow for anything within the scope of practice for a nurse practitioner.

August 1, 2012
Take Care Clinics launches mobile appointment-setting app with iTriage

Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has launched a pilot program offering patients mobile and online appointment-scheduling services through consumer healthcare application iTriage.

July 17, 2012
Pharmacy techs eye larger role in health reform era

Health reform will stand. So what’s next for the pharmacy technician?

July 2, 2012
Health system changing with or without reform

Obamacare will stand.

March 29, 2012
Tufts Health Plan employees to benefit from new Take Care Health Systems-managed center

Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, and Tufts Health Plan have announced the opening of a workplace health center called the BeWell Center, which offers wellness and preventive care, symptom care and laboratory services to Tufts Health Plan employees and contractors.

March 7, 2012
Take Care Clinics offering $39 physicals as spring training, summer camp approaches

Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has announced that it now is offering sports and camp physicals for $39.

March 5, 2012
Walgreens: Face-to-face consults with pharmacists, retail clinicians reduce health spend

Walgreens last week outlined how the company's research has demonstrated the ability of face-to-face pharmacy and Take Care Clinic programs to drive better health outcomes at the IMS Managed Markets Services/Data Niche Conference held here.

February 22, 2012
New pharmacy group RxAlly forms to help control overall health costs

RxAlly on Wednesday announced the launch of the first-of-its-kind alliance of more than 20,000 pharmacies nationwide, united to help patients achieve better health through personalized pharmacist care while reducing costs.

January 31, 2012
For every $1 spent on OTCs, the healthcare system saves up to $7

For every dollar spent on over-the-counter medicines, the U.S. healthcare system realizes a savings of between $6 and $7, or $102 billion all told, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association announced Tuesday with the release of this new study, "The Value of OTC Medicine to the United States."

January 20, 2012
Take Care Clinic's new scheduling option comes as industry gears up for growth

The news that Take Care Health Systems now enables patients to schedule an appointment online, as well as in the clinic, is important as it further demonstrates the clinic operator’s commitment to delivering convenient access to high-quality, affordable healthcare services. Furthermore, the added convenience comes at a time when the convenient care industry is gearing up for growth.

January 17, 2012
Take Care Clinics now offering real-time appointment scheduling option

Walgreens’ Take Care Health Systems, which operates more than 350 clinics inside select Walgreens locations across the country, has announced that patients now can schedule appointments online or in the clinic.

January 3, 2012
Job listing for Geisinger Health System — smokers need not apply

Geisinger Health System may be the largest employer to discriminate against a declining minority — smokers — beginning Feb. 1.

December 19, 2011
Prescription drug access remained stable between 2007 and 2010, study finds

One-in-eight Americans didn't fill prescriptions last year because they couldn't afford to, but despite difficulties with the economy, that proportion remained level, according to a new study conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

December 6, 2011
Healthcare scorecard: The bad offsets the good

United Health Foundation’s "2011 America’s Heath Rankings," released Tuesday, found that increases in obesity, diabetes and children in poverty are offsetting improvements in smoking cessation, preventable hospitalizations and cardiovascular deaths.

November 29, 2011
Cisco contracts with Take Care Health Systems on workplace clinic with remote accessibility

Take Care Health Systems, a subsidiary of Walgreens, on Tuesday announced a relationship with Cisco to operate the LifeConnections Health Center on Cisco's campus in San Jose, Calif.

November 10, 2011
Study: On-site clinics can help public employers curb healthcare costs

With the cost of employee healthcare benefits on the rise, public employers are under increased pressure to contain costs while also providing benefits that help them maintain a healthy work force and attract the best employees. One solution to consider: on-site health clinics, according to a recently released study.

November 10, 2011
Survey: U.S. adults struggle to pay medical bills, forgo recommended care due to cost

More than 1-out-of-4 U.S. adults were unable to pay or encountered problems paying medical bills in the past year, according to a new survey published by the Commonwealth Fund.

September 29, 2011
Inaugural Walgreens health conference addresses care continuum efficiencies

Representatives from leading health systems came together to discuss evolving efforts in coordinated patient care at the first Walgreens Health Systems Executive Client Forum, Walgreens stated Thursday.

August 1, 2011
Fourth annual Retail Clinician Education Congress brings together retail healthcare professionals

This year’s fourth annual Retail Clinician Education Congress kicked off on Monday, bringing together hundreds of retail healthcare professionals to network, receive exclusive accreditation and honor those providers and key executive leaders whose work throughout the year has distinguished them among their peers in retail health care.

July 25, 2011
Moving beyond sick care — just do it!


One thing that was pretty clear in the research we conducted for the 2011 Retail Clinician Reader Survey is that an increasing number of retail-based health practitioners want the clinics they work for to expand the scope of services beyond acute care.

July 19, 2011
Take Care enters collaboration with LSU Health Sciences Center, Healthcare Network

Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has entered a collaborative agreement with Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and LSU Healthcare Network to enhance coordination of care in the greater New Orleans region.

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