Ceremony Assist and Google Cloud introduced a brand new multi-year partnership the place Google Cloud will present Ceremony Assist with technological perception to make its pharmacies extra data-driven and customized.
The pharmacy chain will migrate its key functions to Google Cloud’s Anthos, a platform offering corporations with machine studying analytics, information safety by safety expertise, staff collaboration software program, and the flexibility to run and construct apps.
Rite Aid will transfer its vaccine scheduling instrument, buyer messaging infrastructure and digital engagement platform to Google Cloud, offering roughly 2,350 Ceremony Assist pharmacies’ cloud computing capabilities on-site.
Moreover, the pharmacy firm will use Google tech to maneuver its enterprise information to Google Cloud by way of BigQuery, a multi-cloud information warehouse that turns large information into enterprise insights. Ceremony Assist will even replace its pharmacy advantages and providers firm Elixir’s pharmacy profit administration utility suite.
“The ability of pharmacies, and the necessary function pharmacists play within the well being of their communities, vastly expanded throughout COVID. Realizing that potential means making strategic investments in expertise that may actually assist our clients and maximize the capabilities of our pharmacists,” Justin Mennen, govt vp and chief digital and expertise officer at Ceremony Assist, stated in a press release.
THE LARGER TREND
Digital innovation and implementation have led to collaborations and partnerships between pharmacy chains and massive tech.
In Dec. 2021, CVS Health and Microsoft introduced an alliance targeted on accelerating CVS Well being’s digital strategy and offering a extra data-driven and customized expertise to its clients, workers and ecosystem companions.
The alliance targeted on 5 areas: custom-made care, increasing cloud providers, enabling frontline employees, progressive options and digitizing operations.
