WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Caremark Corp. has formed clinical affiliations with four major regional health systems in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Georgia.

CVS Caremark Corp. has formed clinical affiliations with four major regional health systems in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Georgia.

The new affiliations — the first to include clinical collaborations with its MinuteClinic walk-in medical clinics combined with data on interventions performed by CVS pharmacists — are with Hartford HealthCare in Connecticut, Lahey Health and Baystate Health in Massachusetts, and Memorial Health in Georgia.

Through the collaborations, the health systems’ patients will get access to clinical support, medication counseling, chronic disease monitoring and wellness programs at CVS/pharmacy drug stores and MinuteClinics. CVS Caremark also will provide prescription and visit information to the health systems via the integration of secured electronic medical record (EMR) systems.

"We look forward to working with these health systems to develop collaborative programs that improve patient outcomes, lower costs and help people on their path to better health," CVS Caremark chief medical officer Troy Brennan said in a statement. "Through these clinical affiliations, we will also be integrating our electronic medical records and information systems to enable us to support patients with medication counseling and chronic disease monitoring."

With the four new affiliations, CVS Caremark and MinuteClinic now have a total of 36 collaborations with major health systems nationwide.