A unique Partnership...,
OK,, Longs some time ago I talked about the medical kiosk concept.
Well here you go what if you could walk into Walgreen Drug store. In a private section of the store of course.
You sit down at a visi enabled computer and talk to a doctor
who is part the David Loftus network and do all this for less
than it cost to go to the doctors office... yeah this is what is in the works, The system is laying there for them to pick up.
And it would be much more cost affective for Walgreens to partner up or just outright buy this firm.. It is a win win for Walgreens. it will give them the provider information coming from those consults in a hard copy EHR and the patient gets a PHR history that is easy to use and follow. Walgreens is very concerned as they should be on the drugs people have access to.
There is a social issue here. We all know of people going to different doctors to get a script. It is wrong and filled with danger. And Walgreens and the other script firms are stepping up and demanding more information prior they issue a drug. action news in Jax fla did a write up not long ago. called
Local pharmacy collecting patient information
dealing with this.
So with the in store kiosk Walgreens now will have a unique system in place to be able to track what is going on with their customers medical lives. I think they are getting ready to expand there business into a full blown medical health system with out having the need for on site doctors. It very well could 2x or even 3x walgreens bottom dollar income in the next 5 years. All they have to do is figure out how to get rid of this pesky patent issue. humm now lets see if they can sew this up with Bob and Company they have a clean right to just tell other pharma firms oops you can not do the online thiggy with the medical records because well we or our partner is exclusive. Well time will tell.
Pilot.