Microsoft has announced a seven year agreement with Walgreens Boots Alliance focused on new healthcare delivery models and retail innovations.
Microsoft is moving further into the healthcare space with a new partnership with the Walgreens Boots Alliance, the parent company of the Walgreens, Duane Reed and Boots pharmacy chains and the healthcare products company Alliance Healthcare.
The aim of the seven-year agreement between the companies, detailed in today’s announcement, is to “develop new health care delivery models, technology and retail innovations to advance and improve the future of health care.”
Microsoft and the Walgreens Boots Alliance will work together on research and development to build new healthcare technologies and the two could even possibly operate joint R&D centres in the future.
