Walgreens Teams Up With Microsoft To Launch ‘Health Corners’

Nearly a year after striking a partnership with Microsoft to create "the pharmacy of the future," Walgreens is opening its first "health corners" in stores as of January 2020. Walgreens is piloting the "health corners" at 12 pharmacies in Tennessee. The pilot sites feature two clinic-like rooms, where consumers can meet with a pharmacist to discuss medications and health-tech devices. This is a different approach than Walgreens is taking with its retail clinics, which are staffed by nurse practitioners and other clinicians.

As part of the partnership entered into last year, Microsoft manages Walgreens' data storage, and the . . .