Fresh off the news that its parent company would acquire Rite Aid for at least $9.4 billion, Walgreens announced Thursday that it would install Epic Systems electronic health records in all of its Walgreens Healthcare Clinic convenience clinics. That’s the same EHR that primary competitor CVS Health has in its MinuteClinic locations.
The decision, according to Walgreens, is meant to support Healthcare Clinic expansion plans and to improve care coordination. Walgreens, like CVS, is working on repositioning itself as a vital cog in the healthcare system, and the retail clinics fall somewhere between primary care physicians and emergency rooms.
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