Walgreens Boots Alliance and Microsoft Forge Partnership to Explore Digital Health Opportunities

Executive Summary

On January 15, Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) and Microsoft announced a seven-year strategic partnership to explore opportunities in digital health. Four key aspects of the partnership are:

• WBA and Microsoft will work on developing a connected, consumer-centric healthcare delivery and management platform to improve access to healthcare.
• The companies will also focus on providing more personalized healthcare services, leveraging Microsoft’s cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technology platform Azure.
• The companies will establish a single platform to better connect consumers, providers, pharmaceutical manufacturers and payors.
• WBA will migrate the majority of its IT infrastructure to Microsoft Azure as Microsoft becomes WBA’s strategic cloud provider.