Walgreens takes HIMSS' first Digital Health Innovation Award
The Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHA) presented Walgreens with its first Digital Health Innovation Award for being the first retail pharmacy to launch mobile telemedicine strategies.
Adam Pellegrini, Walgreens divisional vice president of digital health, accepted the award at the 7th annual mHealth Summit.
At Walgreens, Pellegrini leads the development of new products and services that drive medication adherence with digital innovations around mHealth, wearables, telemedicine and remote monitoring. His team at Walgreens has been recognized by Forbes as the leaders in Digital Health for 2014, and helped create a digital platform, Balance Rewards for healthy choices, rewarding healthy habits.
"Walgreens digital health team, spearheaded by Adam, has been a leader in creating and deploying industry-setting mobile experiences, and is a pioneer in the use of innovative mobile and connected health technologies to improve the health and wellness of Walgreens customers," said Rich Scarfo, vice president, Personal Connected Health Alliance at HIMSS, and director of the mHealth Summit. "We could think of no better or more deserving team to receive our first Digital Health Innovation Award."
Walgreens' Balance Rewards for healthy choices is the largest connected health platform with more than 800,000 participants and over 400,000 connected devices and apps. This team also established the first-of-its-kind relationship between WebMD and Walgreens offering digital coaching at no cost, as well as the first connected device application that seamlessly finds and connects to the Walgreens Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure and blood glucose monitoring devices.
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