Strome Business Minute With Dr. Jeff Tanner

I’m Jeff Tanner and this is a Strome Business Minute. With COVID, we’ve seen the acceptance of tele-medicine grow rapidly. At the same time, however, the country’s three largest pharmacy retailers, Walgreens, CVS, and Walmart, have either just inked deals to build primary care centers at their stores or are already building their own network of care centers. Walgreens partnered with VillageMD and plans to open five hundred plus locations in thirty markets over five years, with more than half in underserved areas. Walmart already delivers healthcare in some stores and is now building heathcare super centers offering everything from dental to mental health and basic healthcare. They also opened a health insurance company last week and acquired a patient medication tracking platform called CareZone. CVS, who acquired Aetna insurance two years ago, operates eleven hundred Minute Clinics. What they haven’t done is acquire a virtual healthcare provider…yet. This has been Strome Business Minute, presented by the Str