Trends in Retail Health Clinics and telemedicine

Convenience rules in health care now, where patients can use technology or growing options such as walk-in clinics and urgent care centers to get help whenever they need it.

Timothy Peck, MD, took an unusual career path to found his telemedicine company, Call9 — he moved from Silicon Valley to a nursing home in New York, reports CNBC.

Grocery store chain Albertsons and Rite Aid plan to add more retail health clinics into more supermarkets after their merger is finalized later this year.

Retail and urgent care clinics do have many benefits that improve patient access to care. However, patients must be aware of the pitfalls of these clinics, too.

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"The CVS/Aetna deal may be the start of 'the department store of health care,' said Mike Polachek, executive vice president at SRS Real Estate Partners. "In addition to their fleet of retail stores, I could see them opening selective stores in former large boxes and housing, in addition to their retail format adding an insurance…

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There are more than 1,900 retail-based health facilities in the United States, and they treat more than 10 million people each year. The location factor — health care services set in a venue where consumers already go for everyday needs — certainly gives them leverage. But, as Sarah Bader, principal at architectural firm Gensler, writes in "Retail design strategies for health care," retail health providers have to find new ways to compete in a competitive marketplace. One way to do that, she says, is to create consumer-focused . . .

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Apple was in talks to buy health clinic start-up Crossover Health and approached primary care provider One Medical Group.

UnitedHealth Group's MedExpress urgent care centers are connected to Walgreens drugstores in 16 locations in six states as part of a new pilot program.

The products could spark a price war and put pressure on other store-brand profit margins.

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“WE’RE bringing health care to where people live and work.” So declared Larry Merlo, chief executive officer of CVS Health, an American retail-pharmacy giant, on December 3rd, announcing a $69bn deal to buy Aetna, a health insurer.

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Apple was reportedly in talks to purchase Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Crossover Health, a healthcare startup that works with self-insured employers to provide medical and wellness services at onsite clinics. The move heightens speculation about the tech giant's potential foray into the healthcare space, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNBC. Negotiations between the two…