BOSTON, June 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Health
(NYSE: CVS) today announced the official opening of its
Digital Innovation Lab in Boston, a facility that is focused on
developing cutting-edge digital services and personalized
capabilities that offer an accessible and integrated personal
pharmacy and health experience. The Lab will serve as a vital hub
for the rapidly growing digital team at CVS Health, which will
remain headquartered in Woonsocket,
R.I.
"At CVS Health, everything we do is to help people on their path
to better health, and digital technologies are an amazingly
effective way to achieve this," said Brian
Tilzer, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer for
CVS Health. "Digital technologies are ubiquitous and highly
configurable – a powerful combination, because it allows us to
empower our customers anytime and anywhere. That's why we are
doubling our digital investment, anticipating our customers'
increasing preference to manage their health digitally. The opening
of this Innovation Lab is a significant step forward on this
path."
The launch of the new Digital Innovation Lab is the latest
manifestation of CVS Health's commitment to prioritizing digital
health. The company has been increasingly focused on giving
customers a connected health experience when, where and how people
want by integrating its pharmacy and front-store experience, as
well as through health tools and services offerings. The Digital
Innovation Lab will embody the CVS Health digital team's mission to
run like a startup, accelerating speed-to-market and impact of
digital innovation across the enterprise, by using the resources of
the Lab to rapidly test, improve and implement new programs.
"Boston's position as a hub for
healthcare innovation, coupled with our belief in the
transformational capabilities of digital technologies, makes it an
ideal environment for CVS Health's new Digital Innovation Lab,"
said Mayor Martin J. Walsh. "We're
proud to work alongside CVS Health to foster new advancements in
the digital health space."
Primary focuses of the Lab will include the exploration of
breakthroughs for digital health through innovation in mobile,
personalization, multi-channel e-commerce, connected health and
digital therapeutics. CVS Health will further its pace and breadth
of innovation through partnerships with promising startups and
mature companies alike in the digital and health care space.
The Lab is also committed to developing future-looking health
care solutions. For example, CVS Health plans to introduce a wide
array of new digital services in the coming year and beyond,
ranging from beacon capabilities that allow customers to receive
in-store pharmacy reminders, to applications that turn mobile
phones into remote diagnostic tools. CVS Health services reach 100
million customers annually, meaning these innovations are poised to
make a significant impact in helping people manage their
health.
The Digital Innovation Lab, located at 116 Huntington Avenue in
Boston's Back Bay neighborhood,
will ultimately employ up to 100 team members, complementing the
work of the more than 100 digital professionals currently at the
company's Digital Experience Center in Woonsocket. The company is actively recruiting
talent with expertise in everything from application development
and creative digital design, to engineering, coding, usability and
customer experience.
For information about job openings and career opportunities at
CVS Health, within the Digital team and beyond, please
visit http://www.cvshealth.com/careers.
About CVS Health
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is a pharmacy
innovation company helping people on their path to better health.
Through its 7,800 retail drugstores, nearly 1,000 walk-in medical
clinics, a leading pharmacy benefits manager with more than 70
million plan members, and expanding specialty pharmacy services,
the Company enables people, businesses and communities to manage
health in more affordable, effective ways. This unique integrated
model increases access to quality care, delivers better health
outcomes and lowers overall health care costs. Find more
information about how CVS Health is shaping the future of health
at www.cvshealth.com.
Press Contact
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Pensa
CVS/pharmacy
T: 401.770.4786
E: Erin.Pensa@CVSHealth.com
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