Author: Sophie Ranen

Recon takes an analytical look behind select developments in healthcare

AI in healthcare III: COVID-19 applications and implications

Sophie Ranen June 5, 2020

COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of AI in healthcare. AI based tools and solutions can work quickly, be deployed at scale, and respond to the dynamic nature of the crisis. Use-cases span all facets of responding to the pandemic, from diagnosis and triage, to treatment and combating new transmission. A wide range of players—including startups, established companies, universities, and more—are bringing their capabilities and perspectives to the table. Startups like Current Health, a UK-based remote-monitoring company supporting Mayo Clinic and Baptist Health with their COVID-19 response, are benefitting the industry’s

Amazon to startups: stay close to the consumer and let us own the platforms

Sophie Ranen May 22, 2019

Amazon’s healthcare play appears to be heavily focused on platforms rather than specific applications They would prefer startups focus on elements that are truly differentiating for consumers and let Amazon take care of the infrastructure Early-stage companies investing in their own back-end services may find their dollars wasted or their applications incompatible with Amazon The following insights around Amazon’s healthcare strategy rely on comments made by Eliot Menschik, Global Head, Healthcare + Life Science Startups, at Amazon Web Services and other speakers at the recent TiECon East conference. Because of

There’s always a bigger fish: healthcare services giants are looking anxiously over their shoulders

Sophie Ranen February 24, 2019

With the closing of the CVS/AET and CI/ESRX combinations, healthcare services are now led by a triumvirate of vertically-oriented goliaths. And we can anticipate that there will be more care delivery acquisitions and investments to fill out the new vertical platforms—just as the leader UnitedHealth Group (UNH) continues to invest in its care delivery arm (with the pending acquisition of DaVita’s physician group) a decade after it first went into the clinic business. The extent to which the two new combinations have allowed legacy constituents CVS, AET, CI and ESRX

Author: Sophie Ranen

Recon takes an analytical look behind select developments in healthcare

AI in healthcare III: COVID-19 applications and implications

Amazon to startups: stay close to the consumer and let us own the platforms

There’s always a bigger fish: healthcare services giants are looking anxiously over their shoulders

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