Big tech’s healthcare play just became clearer
Monday, September 21, 2020 I’m asked often about the emerging competitors in the healthcare space, specifically non-traditional competitors such as big tech firms. In the past couple of months, a handful of the big tech firms have sent clear signals about their strategy for targeting consumers with health offerings. The trend started with Google’s acquisition […]
What healthcare CEOs are doing to shift to consumer-centered care
Monday, September 14, 2020 In a recent Power Panel survey with Modern Healthcare, CEOs shared how they are using tech to change the way they engage with consumers in the midst of COVID-19. I share my thoughts on how healthcare is going to feel like a “drive-through” experience. The COVID-19 disruption has been an opportunity […]
Our new WITCH report, telehealth blues
Tuesday, September 08, 2020 Our mid-year review of the top global IT services firms in healthcare, The WITCH Report, is out. This one-of-a-kind in-depth analysis of the financial and market performance of the leading firms, now in its fifth year, is a must-read for health system CIOs, technology executives from IT consulting and services, analysts […]
Amazon and Google rock the digital health world
Monday, August 31, 2020 Amazon’s announcement of a fitness device that analyzes your mood and other conditions,based on voice data, was strange and unexpected. The media was unanimous in giving voice to its skepticism and suspicion, based purely on privacy concerns. We’ve included a couple in this newsletter. My favorite description of the Halo wearable […]
COVID-19: the next chronic disease crisis?
Monday, August 24, 2020 I recently finished reading one of the most widely read accounts of the 1918 pandemic – the so-called “Spanish Flu” – titled The Great Influenza, by the author John Barry. I rarely bring my reading recommendations into this newsletter; however, I am making an exception given the important lessons we can […]
Every business is now a healthcare business
Monday, August 17, 2020 The $ 3 trillion healthcare economy is set to become even bigger as businesses of all sizes reorganize themselves to deal with the long-term impact of the pandemic. We have already started seeing the investments in workplace safety involving office space redesign, protective equipment for employees, and modified schedules to ensure […]
Teladongo!
Monday, August 10, 2020 This week, we unveil a new look for our weekly newsletter. (Tell us what you think!) We couldn’t have chosen a better week for timing the new look. Everything changed last week in the telehealth/digital health space with the blockbuster deal announcement of Teladoc’s acquisition of Livongo, arguably the two most […]
My new book is finally here!
August 3, 2020 When Ed Marx and I started writing our book in late 2019, we had no idea what was around the corner. When the pandemic hit us, we were getting ready to head to the press with our final manuscript. We put the book launch on hold so we could review the impact […]
The coming economic costs of the pandemic
July 27, 2020 (Please help us with this brief 3-question survey for a planned launch of a revised newsletter in the coming weeks.) The second order effects of the pandemic are becoming clearer, even as the second wave of infections begins to sweep across the country, and school districts agonize over the best way to […]
Not wasting the COVID-19 crisis
July 20, 2020 (Please help us with this brief 3-question survey for a planned launch of a revised newsletter in the coming weeks.) “Never waste a crisis” is one of Winston Churchill’s immortal quotes. We are in no less of a war than the one in whose context he uttered those words, but this […]
