Healthcare IT Today September 9, 2020
Colin Hung

On the latest The Combustion Chronicles podcast, host Shawn Nason sits down with Sean Slovenski, CEO at BioIQ and former SVP and President of Walmart Health & Wellness. Together they discussed Walmart’s foray into healthcare, the challenge of introducing new technologies into healthcare and what the future holds. It was, however, Slovenski’s comments about healthcare history repeating itself that I found most fascinating.

Healthcare at Scale

“As an entrepreneur you dream of having the biggest impact you can,” said Slovenski and for him, presiding over Walmart’s healthcare initiative was the epitome of that dream. “The wellness division had close to 100,000 people. It was serving tens of millions of customers. Half of America walks through Walmart’s doors on a weekly...

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Topics: Healthcare System, Insurance, Interview / Q&A, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Retail care, Retailer, Technology, Trends
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