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# Retail's role, focus on equity, value-based pay amid COVID-19: takeaways from HLTH 2020

Highlights from HLTH 2020 explore retail pharmacy's expanding role, growing focus on health equity and value-based pay amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 19, 2020 by Sutter Health

The future of alternate payment models, importance of health equity and biggest question marks hanging over the fast-changing telehealth industry were among topics headlining the virtual HLTH conference last week.

Along with a flurry of digital health funding expansions and new product lines, retail pharmacy giants Walgreens and Rite Aid outlined plans to change the job of the pharmacist, and Trump administration officials teased reimbursement details for an eventual COVID-19 vaccine.

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