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WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health has entered into clinical affiliations with three leading academic medical centers.
The collaborating medical centers are the University of Maryland Medical System, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System.
Through these affiliations, the patients served by these medical centers will continue to have access to clinical support, medication counseling, chronic disease monitoring and wellness programs at CVS/pharmacy stores and MinuteClinic, according to CVS Health.
In addition, CVS Health will provide prescription and visit information to the participating medical centers through the integration of electronic medical record (EMR) systems.
“We look forward to working with these leading medical centers to develop collaborative programs that improve patient outcomes, lower costs and help people on their path to better health,” said Troy Brennan, chief medical officer at CVS Health. “Through these clinical affiliations, we will also be integrating our electronic medical records and information systems to enable us to support patients with medication counseling and chronic disease monitoring.”
Health care providers at the participating medical centers will receive data on interventions conducted by CVS pharmacists to improve medication adherence for their patients. The affiliation also encourages collaboration between the health care providers and MinuteClinic providers to improve coordination of care for patients seen at MinuteClinic locations.
Physicians affiliated with the participating medical centers will collaborate with MinuteClinic nurse practitioners and physician assistants to work on joint clinical programs and care coordination activities. “Finding cost-effective ways to increase access to care continues to be important, especially in this era of health care reform,” Brennan added.
The new clinical affiliations bring the total number of such collaborations for CVS Health and MinuteClinic to 44 major health systems and health care providers nationwide.
