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July 16, 2020

Healthcare Innovation

VillageMD CEO: How The Walgreen’s Partnership Can Fix What’s Broken In Primary Healthcare

VillageMD recently cut a deal to open as many as 700 clinics in Walgreens stores around the country. Tim Barry, VillageMD’s co-founder and CEO, tells Karen Webster that’s part of the plan to make primary medical care more accessible to the 20 percent of Americans whose chronic conditions account for 85 percent of U.S. healthcare spending. Here’s how it will work.

 

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PODCAST: V-Card Adoption

Virtual-Card Adoption – Not An ‘All-Or-Nothing’ Strategy

While chief financial officers are accelerating their payments-digitization agendas, a lack of vendor acceptance can quickly lead to AP teams putting the kibosh on virtual cards. But companies don’t have to entirely clear the hurdle of supplier acceptance for a v-card program to succeed, says OnPay Solutions President and CEO Neal Anderson. He tells Karen Webster how finance teams can target those who could get the most value from v-cards and be part of a digital payments mix.

 

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Digital First Banking

Banks Must Look Beyond Speed To Optimize Digital Account Opening

Branch closures have forced financial nstitutions (FIs) to accelerate their digital-account offerings for consumers who’ve long desired a better onboarding experience. But speed is only one part of the value proposition. Doug Brown, senior vice president and general manager of NCR Digital Banking, tells Karen Webster that FIs must revise their priorities if their onboarding strategies aim to promote not just more accounts, but long-lasting customer relationships.

 

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Traveler Innovation

How One Startup Is Reinventing Travel Insurance For The Post-Pandemic World

What would happen if getting paid for a travel-related claim happened the instant that something went wrong and without filing out any paperwork? Koala CEO Ugo Weyl tells PYMNTS how tracking the traveler’s trip in real time – and then instantly putting funds into their bank account – is changing the travel insurance game – and the consumer’s incentive to buy it.

 

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The FIT® Framework

Why Large Retailers Are Mandating Masks

Walmart and Kroger joined Starbucks, Best Buy and other retailers that are mandating that customers wear masks when shopping in their stores. The mandate is a strong signal that they recognize the importance of giving consumers confidence that it’s safe to shop in their stores. And, a great example of the Digital 3.0 FIT ® framework in action.

 

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Payments Orchestration Playbook

Can Mobile Solve A City’s Transit Payment Challenges?

With countries around the world reopening their borders, consumers are eager to travel — but want to do so in a germ-free, contactless way. That can be a problem when one city's transit system accepts cards while another’s runs on cash and tokens. In this month’s Payments Orchestration Playbook, David Block-Schachter, chief business officer at Transit, explains how mobile-enabled transit fare payments can solve for the issue for consumers traveling across borders.

 

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