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Zocdoc was founded in New York City in 2007 by Oliver Kharraz, Nick Ganju, and Cyrus Massoumi, who served as the company's first CEO. Established in 2007, the private company had a $1.8 billion valuation by August 2015, the third-highest for a startup in New York at the time. The service is free for patients, and doctors pay to advertise their appointment slots. The platform also functions as a physician and dentist rating and comparison database. Zocdoc is a New York City-based company offering an online service that allows people to find and book in-person or telemedicine appointments for medical or dental care.

CVS even plans to convert 10% of its retail stores into primary care offices over the next three years.Telehealth, Medical appointment booking platform

In fact, both Walgreens and CVS recently announced an aggressive strategy to expand their retail clinics across the US.

US retail clinic patients are on the rise: We expect the number of US retail consumers to jump from 53.5 million US adults in 2019 to 82.7 million adults by next year-all while patients from primary care practices are declining, per Insider Intelligence’s US Retail Health Clinic January 2021 forecast.

What’s next?We suspect Google will turn to retail clinic partners like Walgreens and Walmart next, since these players already offer convenient virtual booking options and appointment times on their websites-and don’t currently partner with an appointment scheduler like Zocdoc. However, that doesn't mean Google won’t threaten Zocdoc in the long haul, especially since its Search engine has the highest number of monthly unique visitors in the US- surpassing Facebook and Amazon.But can it catch up to the likes of Zocdoc? Appointment scheduler Zocdoc has a competitive advantage since it already has a large pool of private practice doctors enabling booking through its platform.