Microsoft, WBA in health care delivery tie up

Microsoft and Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) have announced a seven-year partnership.

This will see the former become WBA’s strategic cloud provider, with plans to migrate the majority of the company’s IT infrastructure onto Microsoft Azure. It is also aiming to roll-out Microsoft 365 to more than 380,000 employees and stores globally.

“This demonstrates our strong commitment to creating integrated, next-generation, digitally enabled health care delivery solutions for our customers, transforming our stores into modern neighbourhood health destinations and expanding customer offerings,” says Stefano Pessina, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO, WBA. 

“We will work with Microsoft to harness the information that exists between payors and health care providers to leverage, in the interest of patients and with their consent, our extraordinary network of accessible and convenient locations to deliver new innovations, greater value and better health outcomes in health care systems across the world.”

Further details here.

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