Walgreens Boots Alliance has announced a partnership with Microsoft to establish innovative health care delivery models. The collaboration will see the technology company's cloud and AI platform, Microsoft Azure, leveraging its access to big data and applying this to new health care solutions in Walgreens' 8,000 global locations. While no financial detail has been revealed, both firms confirmed multi-year investments, including 12 pilot initiatives to market health-related hardware. The race to offer low-cost health care services and treatments has ramped up in multiyear, with CVS Health and Amazon both making large acquisitions in the sector.
Walgreens Boots Alliance has announced a partnership with Microsoft to establish innovative health care delivery models. The collaboration will see the technology company's cloud and AI platform, Microsoft Azure, leveraging its access to big data and applying this to new health care solutions in Walgreens' 8,000 global locations. While no financial detail has been revealed, both firms confirmed multi-year investments, including 12 pilot initiatives to market health-related hardware. The race to offer low-cost health care services and treatments has ramped up in recent months, with CVS Health and Amazon both making large acquisitions in the sector.