{"id":4206,"date":"2011-09-29T06:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2011-09-29T06:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T12:15:13","slug":"rite-aid-rolls-out-in-store-virtual-doctor-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4206","title":{"rendered":"Rite Aid rolls out in-store virtual doctor visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9220300\/Rite_Aid_rolls_out_in_store_virtual_doctor_visits\">Lucas Mearian:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>One of the nation&#8217;s leading drug store chains, Rite Aid, has begun rolling out online physician chat rooms in its stores, allowing customers to participate in virtual face-to-face consultations prior to purchases.<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>Rite Aid today said it worked with healthcare provider OptumHealth to introduce its NowClinic Online Care services, which are currently available at pharmacies in the Detroit area.<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>The NowClinic offers Rite Aid customers real-time access to medical information and resources from doctors and OptumHealth nurses. Rite Aid said it is the first to provide a virtual clinic in a retail pharmacy setting.<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>Currently, conversations with nurses are free and a 10-minute consultation with a doctor is $45.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas Mearian: One of the nation&#8217;s leading drug store chains, Rite Aid, has begun rolling out online physician chat rooms in its stores, allowing customers to participate in virtual face-to-face consultations prior to purchases. Rite Aid today said it worked with healthcare provider OptumHealth to introduce its NowClinic Online Care services, which are currently available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4207,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}