Innovation Disruptors
Over the past couple of months, interesting news and insights have surfaced from Walmart and Amazon executives about their strategies and execution goals.
A record $37.9 billion poured into the U.S. digital health market in 2021, according to CB Insights’ recent “State of Digital Health” report. A large share of that money helped fund startups focusing on telehealth, mental health and wellness, and digital therapeutics.
If 2021 will be remembered as the great expansion of retail health care, 2022 is likely to be defined as the year of disruptor differentiation.
Fund managers now target companies addressing health equity with solutions aimed at increasing access and improving outcomes for historically underserved and marginalized communities. Some are assessing the diversity of fund managers and allocating a percentage of funds to companies owned by Blacks…
COVID-19’s reset of the U.S. economy will reverberate well beyond the pandemic. For health care executives, the critical question is to what extent the business model and nature of competition in care delivery may change.
Disrupting employer-sponsored health care can be like trying to devour an elephant. Where does one begin? Investment banking giant JPMorgan Chase has been wrestling with this issue since it launched Morgan Health four months ago as a follow-up to its failed Haven venture with Berkshire Hathaway and…
Amazon Web Services has had relationships with thousands of health care startups. On Oct. 28, however, the culmination of AWS’ Healthcare Accelerator launch will give 10 recently selected startups an unprecedented experience.
In the marathon that the COVID-19 pandemic has become, hospitals and health systems set a brisk early pace in transforming digitally. Telehealth services scaled rapidly as organizations adopted clinically integrated digital strategies and shifted how and where they deliver services. That momentum,…
Big tech firms, intent on disrupting health care, have hit a rough patch. Apple’s unpublicized vision of offering primary care services with company-employed physicians and clinics has stalled, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report. For the second time in a decade, the Google Health…
In a move it says is driven by customers who want more convenient and affordable health care products and services, Dollar General will join an army of retail competitors that are intent on becoming a health care destination.