CVS Health makes $18.9M investment in affordable homes for Columbus, Ohio
Through the project, 142 rental homes will be renovated and eight new ones will be built. A childcare center will also be created to help […]
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Intel Invests $20M in Biofourmis’ Virtual Care Offerings
What You Should Know: – Biofourmis, a Boston-based global leader in virtual care and digital medicine, today announced that Intel Capital, the strategic investment arm […]
Analysis: What CVS Health’s interest in primary and home care means
An expert industry observer said CVS Health’s move into primary care is both offensive and defensive, but perhaps more importantly a natural evolution of a […]
CVS Health Among Potential Buyers For Signify Health
Yet another massive retailer is inching closer to buying a company that is focused on the home as a setting of care. CVS Health Corp. […]
CVS Health Looking To Enhance Capabilities Through Home Health Care
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is one of many large corporations that have expressed a desire to revolutionize the “consumer experience” in health care. To do […]
Virtual mental health increasingly important for younger and Hispanic populations, data shows
While 92% of consumers said virtual care adds convenience when choosing a primary care provider, those accessing virtual mental healthcare had different responses to how […]
‘The Patient Will See You Now’: Aetna’s CMO Explores Home Health Care’s Future
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is one of the most influential health care entities in the United States. It having the health insurance giant Aetna underneath […]
What Major Primary Care Deals Mean for In-Home Care Operators
There are multiple big-time, primary care deals on the horizon. And the names tied to those deals are behemoths in size and influence. They are […]
FirstLight Home Care Names New CEO; DispatchHealth Hires New Leader
FirstLight Home Care names new CEO FirstLight Home Care’s president of one year has also been named as the company’s CEO. Glee McAnanly, named president […]
Aetna Finds Value in Home-Based Care Providers Willing, Able to Share Data
Aetna is one of the most influential health care companies in the country. It’s also heavily invested in home-based care. Aman Gill, Aetna’s director of […]
CVS Health Launches New Virtual Primary Care Platform
What You Should Know: – CVS Health launches of its new Virtual Primary Care solution on a single digital platform for a more coordinated and consumer-centric health care experience. – The new […]
CVS Health Using Home Health, Hospice Providers to Deliver Care Further Upstream
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) recently floated the idea of home health acquisitions and partnerships. Mostly, it has repeatedly doubled down on the idea that it […]
Home-Based Care Acquisitions, Partnerships Both on Table for CVS Health
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) has become one of the most interesting home-adjacent health care players since its investor day last December. It’s possible that the […]
Biofourmis Secures $300M to Expand Virtual Care Offerings
Kuldeep Singh Rajput, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Biofourmis What You Should Know: – Biofourmis, a global leader in virtual care and digital medicine raises […]
Vibe at ViVE: Health tech executives share new developments at inaugural conference [Sponsored]
Hear from healthcare executives such as CVS Kidney Care President Lisa Rometty, Komodo Health CEO Dr. Arif Nathoo, and McKesson Ventures Partner Michelle Snyder on […]
CVS Health Releases Drug Trend Report
What You Should Know: – CVS Health released their Drug Trend Report, examining the drivers of overall and specialty drug trend through the first three quarters of 2021. Data were calculated on a […]
From picking up groceries to primary care: How digital health can help retailers become a one stop shop
With footprints in local communities across the country, retailers have the food, the medicine, the pharmacist and now even the access to local and convenient […]
CVS, Medable alliance aims to tackle diversity in clinical trials
CVS Health has said it will beef up its clinical trials operations, improving its ability to recruit patients from a broad demographic spectrum, via an […]
CVS Health Flirts with Idea of Expanding into Medicare Home Health
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) mentioned home-based care from time to time when discussing strategy pre-2020. Over the last two years, however, those mentions have become […]
2 collaborations – CVS Health with Medable, and Thermo Fisher Scientific with Medidata Acorn AI – seek to improve clinical trials
CVS MinuteClinic providers will use Medable’s software platform to improve patient access, engagement and retention during clinical trials. Meanwhile, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Medidata Acorn […]
CVS Health Taps Medable to Bring Decentralized Clinical Trials to Pharmacies Nationwide
What You Should Know: – Medable and CVS Health announced a strategic collaboration that will make clinical research more accessible to patients of all demographics. […]
CVS Health, Uber Health Collaborate to Advance Health Equity in Communities Nationwide
What You Should Know: – CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) announced a collaboration with Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm, to provide free transportation through a new […]
CVS Health and Microsoft alliance: an example of an extended partnership
Microsoft and CVS Health have announced a new strategic alliance focusing on personalised care and accelerating digital transformation for the benefit of CVS customers and […]
‘We Are Making Very Bold Moves’: CVS Health Targets Home Health, Primary Care Investments
In December, CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) shared its strategy for “revolutionizing” the consumer experience through its primary care, payer, digital and omnichannel health services offerings, […]
Retail Giants Ready to Disrupt the Home-Based Care Ecosystem
As I tried to fall asleep the other night doing the 21st century version of counting sheep – listening to a podcast, of course – […]
CVS Health Looking to ‘Expand Home Health Services’
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) said on Thursday that it plans to take another step into the home health care space. The company laid out its […]
CVS details plans for primary care centers
At its first investor day since the start of the pandemic, CVS Health detailed plans to open primary care centers and integrate them with its […]
CVS strikes partnership with Microsoft as it rolls out new digital strategy
CVS plans to use more of Microsoft’s cloud services, and also plans to work with the company to develop personalized health services focused on consumers. […]
Aetna Medicare CMO Outlines Aging-in-Place Agenda
America’s biggest health care companies continue to focus on home-based care and aging in place as 2022 approaches. That includes CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS) […]
Microsoft and CVS Health Partner to Accelerate Personalized Care Experience
What You Should Know: CVS Health and Microsoft announce a new strategic alliance to reimagine personalized care and accelerate digital transformation. CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) […]
CVS Pharmacy “Talking” Prescription Labels Now Available Nationwide
What You Should Know: – CVS Pharmacy today introduced Spoken Rx, its proprietary audio prescription label solution developed in collaboration with the American Council for the Blind, now available […]
CVS to close 900 stores, turn some into primary care sites
The company will close 300 stores per year starting next spring. As CVS emphasizes health services as part of its strategy, it also plans to […]
CVS sees opportunity to influence cost of care with primary care push
CVS recently launched a virtual primary care plan through a partnership with Teladoc, and is redesigning its stores to offer a broader array of health […]
Why Sutter Health, CVS See the Home as a ‘Mainstream’ Site of Care
On the same day a CVS Health (TKTK) executive emphasized the company only invests time and resources in its most fervent business beliefs, another exec […]
CVS Health Executive: ‘Underestimate Amazon at One’s Peril’
The retail giants are getting — either indirectly or directly — into home-based care. That matters, because if they didn’t firmly believe in it, they […]
HIMSS21 Day 2 Roundup: CVS Health Virtual Primary Care, M&A Activity, Funding, More
Raintree Systems Mourns the Passing of its CEO, Richard Welty Raintree Systems, a software development company that provides value-based solutions for the healthcare industry, announces the […]
CVS Health Rolls Out Nationwide Virtual Primary Care Solution
What You Should Know: – Aetna, a CVS Health company, today announced the launch of Aetna Virtual Primary Care, which reimagines the primary care experience […]
CVS lowers vaccination expectations, but says more people are coming in for first doses
CVS lowered its guidance for vaccines after seeing vaccinations decline from their mid-April heights. But more people are coming in for first doses after the […]
Intermountain to close 25 retail pharmacies, shift patients to CVS
Intermountain Healthcare plans to close 25 of its retail pharmacies, and will transfer those prescriptions to CVS Pharmacy starting next month. The change will affect […]
Amazon Reportedly Gets Turned Down by CVS Health in Effort to Expand In-Home Care Platform’s Footprint
Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has reportedly approached CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) in order to expand the coverage of its Amazon Care services, according to a report […]
Can Amazon change how the PBM and pharmacy worlds operate?
Despite mounting court and legislative scrutiny of pharmacy and prescription benefit manager practices, Amazon has chosen to throw its hat into the discount pharmacy ring. […]
Check out video highlights of INVEST Precision Medicine conference from pediatrics to funding trends
The INVEST Precision Medicine conference cast a spotlight on the role of children’s hospitals, biopharma companies, diagnostic companies and startups in biopharma innovation. The video […]
Precision medicine is growing fast. Can hospitals and clinicians can keep pace?
New technologies that enable precision medicine approaches to treating disease are reaching more patients. But panelists speaking at MedCity News’ INVEST Precision Medicine Conference added […]
INVEST Precision Medicine Day 3: A look at the state of precision medicine, non dilutive funding
On the final day of INVEST Precision Medicine, a panel with Caris Health, CVS Health, and Intermountain Healthcare will share assessments of precision medicine’s progress […]
CVS Health Launches Clinical Trial Services Business for Investigational COVID-19 Vaccines & Treatments
What You Should Know: – Today, CVS Health announced the launch of a new Clinical Trial Services business, driving greater access to clinical trials across the communities […]
CVS Health Expands Return Ready Vaccine Clinics to Accommodate Small Business & Schools
What You Should Know: – Today, CVS Health announced that it will expand Return Ready, the company’s comprehensive COVID-19 solution that helps employers and schools return and maintain […]
CVS pilots mental health services in some stores, sees Covid vaccinations slow
After months of frenetic activity to get vaccines to people as quickly as possible, CVS is seeing the number of appointments decline. The retail pharmacy […]
CVS Health Launches Employer-Based COVID-19 Vaccination Program
What You Should Know: Today, CVS Health announced it recently began administering COVID-19 vaccines at employer-based vaccination clinics through Return Ready, the company’s comprehensive COVID-19 solution that helps […]
Aetna Launches Connected Plan with CVS Health in St. Louis Market
What You Should Know: – The Aetna Connected Plan with CVS Health™ is a first-of-its-kind plan offering that will deliver CVS Health® and Aetna’s combined […]
CVS Health Inks Larger PBM Contract with Federal Employee Program, Adds Specialty Pharmacy Care
What You Should Know: – Today, CVS Caremark, the Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) of CVS Health announced a larger PBM contract with the Government-wide Service […]
Payers Increasingly Turning to Home-Based Care to Shoulder COVID-19 Costs
Back in 2018, it felt like the health care sector was on the verge of a massive shift, driven by a desire from payers to […]
CVS Health Building ‘Home Health Hub’ to Better Care for Seniors
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) has allotted ample resources toward home- and community-based care over the past year. It has done so for several reasons, CVS […]
CVS Launches Community-Based Strategy to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Education and Equity
Source: CVS Health What Should Know: – CVS Health unveils community-based strategy increase access to COVID-19 vaccinations for vulnerable communities and advance vaccine education while […]
CVS plans to re-enter ACA marketplace in 2022
After completely exiting the ACA exchanges in 2018, CVS plan to re-enter them in 2022. Last year, enrollment through federal exchanges increased, and Aetna CEO […]
CVS Health Launches Senior Medical Alert System, Symphony
What You Should Know: – Today, CVS Health announced Symphony, a medical alert system designed to keep seniors safe and connected at home. – Symphony […]
Vaccine rollout is an administrative problem, not a distribution issue and is expected to go away
The CEOs of Pfizer, Moderna, McKesson and CVS Health explained that the distribution effort has gone well but the administration of the vaccine has now […]
CVS Health Partners with National Oncology Network to Offer In-Home Chemotherapy
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is partnering with the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) to offer in-home chemotherapy to cancer patients. The partnership is a […]
CVS Health to Provide In-Home Chemotherapy with Cancer Treatment Centers of America
What You Should Know: – Today, CVS Health announced a collaboration with Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) to provide in-home chemotherapy for clinically eligible […]
Amazon, CVS Health, Thermo Fisher Scientific Form Alliance for Employer-based COVID-19 Testing
What You Should Know: – Amazon, CVS Health, Thermo Fisher Scientific join forces to promote employer-based testing As part of a comprehensive COVID-19 testing strategy. […]
Walgreens, VillageMD to open 40 clinics by next summer
The retailer plans to open primary care clinics in Houston, El Paso, Austin, Phoenix and Orlando by next summer as part of its partnership with […]
HHS Taps CVS Health for Pilot to Administer COVID-19 Therapy to Patients At Home & Long-Term Care Facilities
What You Should Know: – Today, CVS Health was selected by HHS, as part of Operation Warp Speed, to pilot the administration of a limited […]
Recent Executive Hires: CVS Health New President, Cleveland Clinic/Amwell Joint Venture Leadership, Others
Neela Montgomery, EVP & President at CVS Pharmacy/Retail CVS Health Corporation names Neela Montgomery Executive Vice President and President of CVS Pharmacy/Retail, effective November 30, […]
Unite Us expands social determinants partnerships in Louisiana, West Virginia
The technology company is partnering with major insurers, including Aetna and Humana, as well as providers like Ochsner Health to expand access to its platform […]
Four takeaways from CVS Health’s Q3 earnings
CVS Health named a new CEO in its earnings call on Friday. Between plans to further integrate its pharmacy and insurance businesses, and discussion about […]
Aetna president to lead CVS after CEO Merlo retires
Aetna President Karen Lynch will replace current CVS CEO Larry Merlo next spring. Merlo, who has been the company’s CEO for nearly a decade, plans […]
CVS to roll out rapid Covid-19 testing at 1,000 sites
CVS Health plans to add rapid Covid-19 tests at 1,000 locations by the end of the year. The company has not specified which rapid tests […]
Salesforce, CVS Health Integrates COVID-19 Return to Work and Campus Solutions
What You Should Know: – Salesforce and CVS Health announced a strategic relationship to help organizations, including employers and universities, return critical populations to the workplace or campus. With […]
New CVS Pharmacy App Feature Can Read Prescription Labels Out Loud for Visually Impaired
What You Should Know: – CVS introduced Spoken Rx™, a new feature of the CVS Pharmacy app that can read important prescription information out loud. It is […]
