Whois & Analysis for minuteclinic.com

MinuteClinic is a division of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) (stylized as minute clinic), the largest pharmacy health care provider in the United States.

MinuteClinic launched the first walk-in clinic in the country in 2000 and is the largest provider of retail clinics with more than 1,100 locations in 33 states and the District of Columbia.

Nationally, the company has cared for more than 20 million patients, with a 95% customer satisfaction rating.

MinuteClinic is the first retail health care provider to receive three consecutive accreditations from The Joint Commission (2006, 2009 and 2012), the national evaluation and certifying agency for nearly 19,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States.

Telehealth involves the distribution of health-related services and information.

Distribution is via electronic information and telecommunication technologies.

It allows long distance patient/clinician contact and care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, monitoring and remote admissions.

As well as provider distance-learning; meetings, supervision, and presentations between practitioners; online information and health data management and healthcare system integration.

Telehealth could include two clinicians discussing a case over video conference; a robotic surgery occurring through remote access; physical therapy done via digital monitoring instruments, live feed and application combinations; tests being forwarded between facilities for interpretation by a higher specialist; home monitoring through continuous sending of patient health data; client to practitioner online conference; or even videophone interpretation during a consult.

A walk-in clinic describes a very broad category of medical facilities only loosely defined as those that accept patients on a walk-in basis and with no appointment required.

A number of healthcare service providers fall under the walk-in clinic umbrella including urgent care centers, retail clinics and even many free clinics or community health clinics.

Walk-in clinics offer the advantages of being accessible and often inexpensive.

However amongst the negative aspects are that walk-in clinics provide poor quality healthcare as opposed to professional healthcare such as regular doctors and hospitals.

Other disadvantages may include the urgency to make the patient's visit as quick as possible in order to reduce the long waiting list of walk-ins at the clinic, which may fail to fulfill the purpose of the visit.

CVS Pharmacy (stylized as ❤CVSpharmacy and previously CVS/pharmacy) is a subsidiary of the American retail and health care company CVS Health, headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

It was originally named the Consumer Value Store and was founded in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1963.

The chain was owned by its original holding company Melville Corporation since its inception until its current parent company CVS Health was spun off into its own company in 1996.

CVS Pharmacy is currently the largest pharmacy chain in the United States by number of locations (over 9,600 as of 2016) and total prescription revenue.

As the retail pharmacy division of CVS Health, it ranks as the 7th largest U.S. corporation according to Fortune 500 in 2016.

CVS Pharmacy's leading competitor Walgreens Boots Alliance ranked 37th.

Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.

Healthcare is delivered by health professionals (providers or practitioners) in allied health professions, chiropractic, physicians, physician associates, dentistry, midwifery, nursing, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, psychology, and other health professions.

It includes the work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health.