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Coborn's pharmacies to deploy blood pressure kiosks and health IT platform

April 25, 2017

PharmaSmart International Inc., a manufacturer of health screening kiosks and a developer of health IT and health management solutions, will deploy its blood pressure kiosk and cloud-based Health IT platform across Coborn's, Inc.'s 36 grocery stores with pharmacies, which operate under the banners of Coborn's, Cash Wise Foods and Market Place Foods across Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Kiosks will also be placed in the company's two clinic pharmacies and their Coborn's support center in St. Cloud, Minnesota, according to a press release.

Coborn's, Inc. will leverage PharmaSmart's clinical-grade program and McKesson's CPS integration to drive Medicare Star Ratings objectives, specifically measures D-14 (medication adherence for hypertension) and C-19 (controlling blood pressure), both of which are triple-weighted measures of high interest to national and regional insurers.

"For us this is more than just deploying new kiosks," said Jim Cox, Coborn's, Inc.'s pharmacy director, in the release. "With PharmaSmart, we now offer our guests a credible, evidence-based program for blood pressure management, including full integration into our Rx software, and a branded patient health portal. PharmaSmart's integrated solution allows us to easily intervene in cases where blood pressure control is not achieved, and we now have the data to demonstrate our impact on blood pressure control over a managed population.”