Month: September 2022

Recon takes an analytical look behind select developments in healthcare

Trends in oncolytic virus therapeutics: then and now

David Kaufmann and Marc Herant September 26, 2022

PDF: Trends in oncolytic virus therapeutics: then and now The idea of using pathogens to treat disease is not new; ranging from phage therapy to malariotherapy (resulting in the only Nobel in medicine to a psychiatrist – in 1927), but it was really only with the onset of the biotech revolution in the 1990s that an old concept of using viruses as tumor killing agents started to come into its own. As the ability to characterize viruses at the genetic level grew, it was followed by the techniques to genetically modify

Are some of Kaiser’s regional ambitions starting to pay off?

Jacob Wiesenthal and Tory Wolff September 19, 2022

PDF: Are some of Kaiser’s regional ambitions starting to pay off? We have produced a new study evaluating developments in Kaiser’s regions (outside of California). The report provides an explanation for recent improvements in performance as well as leadership and governance changes. Further, we identify several implications for the future of Kaiser strategy. The Kaiser Permanente model has a heavy infrastructure, and so it requires a lot of local market share and operating scale to deliver a positive net underwriting margin (we roughly size how much using statistical analysis). Yet,

What should school nurses do (and not do)? A call for further research

Alyssa Idusuyi September 12, 2022

About the author: Alyssa Idusuyi is currently a high school senior attending Miss Porter’s School (Connecticut). She spent the summer of 2022 with Recon Strategy as a paid intern assigned a project to research the evolving role of school nurses in student health. Alyssa plans to attend college next year, and is considering a career in healthcare. School nurses do more than just give students band aids and Tylenol. Since the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, school nurses have been front and center in taking care of students and

Month: September 2022

Recon takes an analytical look behind select developments in healthcare

Trends in oncolytic virus therapeutics: then and now

Are some of Kaiser’s regional ambitions starting to pay off?

What should school nurses do (and not do)? A call for further research

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