From in-store health care clinics to eyeglasses, from flu shots to urgent care, Wal-Mart has its designs on leveraging its 4000 stores into the largest force in American healthcare. How does this affect you and your industry? What are their motivations?
In 10 short years Wal-Mart become the second largest force in optometry. Their $4 prescription plan changed the face of the prescription industry.
Will Wal-Mart become the largest referral source in medicine through their 2000 planned retail health clinics? Will Wal-Mart "Mom and Pop" certain specialties into economic hardship? How will Wal-Mart's plans for Electronic Health Records (EHR) affect healthcare providers?
"Wal-Mart & The Future of Healthcare" addresses these questions and more as you are compelled to face a new competitive force on the horizon.
Learning Objectives
1) Demonstrate how will Walmart use its immense powers of scale to leverage its existing stores into healthcare, as they did in optometry
2) Show how Walmart is poised to become the largest referrer of healthcare services in the U.S.
3) Provide an overview of Walmart's efforts in Electronic Medical Records, and how they could influence the standards in EHRs
4) Review Walmart's past effort in healthcare (i.e. $4 prescription drugs) and how they have affected the healthcare marketplace