A number of retail chains that have been trying to move into primary care have been retrenching or withdrawing altogether. Despite their struggles, there is a place for retail chains in healthcare. But to secure it, they will have to overhaul their strategies. Doing so entails making primary care a core business, expanding into rural and suburban communities, moving into more complex care with higher margins, and partnering with other providers.
The online retailer’s Amazon Pharmacy business said it will leverage its “vast logistics network and advanced automation technology to solve one of pharmacy’s biggest pain points: the lack of convenient, affordable access to medications,” the company said in an announcement Wednesday.
Steward Health Care's retreat from Massachusetts is continuing, with the bankrupt company officially moving in court Monday to abandon the under-construction Norwood Hospital property and close four affiliated outpatient clinics nearby no later than Nov. 5. The hospital itself has not been open since a June 2020 flood caused catastrophic damage, but four satellite facilities in Norwood and Foxborough have continued to operate under the Norwood Hospital license. That state license expires Nov. 5 and Steward told the court it intends to walk away from what remains in Norwood and the satellite clinics by then.
From the chalet-style patient 'cottages' to the walls designed for scribbling on, Herzog & de Meuron's Kinderspital is a stylish, healing, child-friendly miracle – and it cost less than UK equivalents.
Medtronic is so bullish on generative artificial intelligence, its executives say, that every department at the medical-device maker has been asked to come up with ways the technology can boost productivity or improve patient outcomes.