“media attention [is] on lead identification, probably because it sells headlines” – Greg Meyers, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, BMS[1]
The biopharma industry is known for its high risk and po…
About the author: Phiona Nabagereka is currently a high school senior attending the Noble and Greenough School. She spent the summer of 2024 with Recon Strategy as a paid intern assigned a project to …
We refresh a prior analysis of two cohorts of oncology development programs: one with first-in-human (FIH) in 2012, and the other with FIH in 2017H2. We use a Kaplan-Meier approach to track whether pr…
What does Socrates have to do with AI? And what's the Spooky Mountain and why we need to conquer it to get to an AI enabled future?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V10R6lcIl4…
Back in 2018, I offered a speculation about what Amazon might do in healthcare as part of its now defunct joint venture with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway. The focus was on doing what Amazon is re…
There isn’t a bricks-and-mortar primary care acquisition out there that is beyond Amazon’s financial reach. While the announcement regarding One Medical has provoked fresh rounds of speculation about…
The role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in healthcare spans a vast range of potential applications. A view of AI development on clinicaltrials.gov helps to focus this landsc…
Healthcare is by nature conservative; despite a huge level of interest for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques, significant penetration in standard workflows of care will…
Eighteen months ago, WMT opened its first Walmart Health clinic attached to a supercenter in Dallas, GA. The operation combined multiple services – primary/urgent care, dentistry, behavioral health, …
Summary:
We conducted a comparative analysis of the referral networks of orthopedic surgeons in King County (the area around Seattle, WA) and Miami-Dade County.
Similarities
Bigger systems are better…
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 face…
Preamble
A recent post from Recon Strategy outlined the longer-term strategic implications of Covid-19 on 12 healthcare sectors. This post highlights the opportunity to redeploy corporate strategy ass…
Even as our priority today is dealing with the Covid crisis, healthcare organizations would do well to start thinking about the longer-term implications for their strategies. In some instances the mar…
MSFT’s pathbreaking alliances in healthcare services are impressive and well designed to grow adoption of their Azure cloud over the medium term. But if MSFT wants to be at the forefront of change an…
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 …
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 …
Interest and investment in digital health has increased rapidly in recent years. Some digital health software is impactful enough that it requires FDA approval, but current regulatory pathways are sl…
WMT is in talks with HUM about a relationship enhancement, possibly an acquisition. The two already know how to work together in alliances (narrow pharmacy network, marketing collaborations, points pr…
Last month, word got out that Verily is in talks with health plans to “jointly bid” on care management contracts. Medicaid populations might be a reasonable surmised as the target given that (1) manag…
35%+ of consumers who purchased on Amazon over a 30-day period say they would be “open” to health insurance created by Amazon according to a new survey (see Becker’s headline and the LendEdu study des…
Amazon has many puzzled about its plans for healthcare. Arguably, Amazon is just as puzzled, but is – in effect -- running a massive Delphi process to sort out the plan. Amazon is, after all, the Brea…
Warburg Pincus, the new majority owners of CityMD, a 68 site urgent care chain, will need to bring plenty of capital to an urgent care industry approaching its endgame. CityMD competes on a national s…
Summary
Cheap home devices are starting to generate a flood of high frequency, low latency biometric data, much of it of uncertain clinical value
This uncertainty makes designing the service model di…
Summary
Livongo is marrying a cellular-enabled glucometer and a data cloud with patient engagement services to help manage sugar levels
Glucometer incumbents could match Livongo’s technology but will…
I have been conducting an informal test for the past year and a half. And while it has not been a full statistically-significant clinical trial with test and control groups, and “double blind” testin…
“Agile corporate strategy” (as defined in a previous post) is already the established the weapon of choice for small, early-stage innovators trying to re-invent their marketplace, where the product is…
The dirty little secret of the booming agile training and coaching industry is that most Agile implementations ultimately fail, meaning that the companies revert back to their previous working methods…
In a previous post, I explored Maxwell Health as an example of agile product development strategy in healthcare. For small single-product companies the product strategy is the corporate strategy, but…
This past January, Walgreens assigned operational control of 56 in-store clinics to Advocate Health. The deal signals another intensification of the already fierce hospital competition in Chicago, and…
Earlier this month, researchers released a study of patient-initiated emails to providers with Northern California Kaiser Permanente (KPNC) in 2011/12 in the JAMC . The study focused on patients with …
Maxwell Health LLC is a rapidly growing company that offers a platform to make it easy and intuitive for employees to manage their employer-sponsored benefits. It is at the intersection of several ma…
A few problems
Geographic barriers to the entry have long protected providers from best-in-class competition. Provider consolidation – theoretically a logical response to the current operating enviro…
Summary
In this working paper, we develop the following thesis. In the not so distant future (a decade or two), medicine will be largely governed by algorithms -- highly deterministic clinical pathway…
Summary
A Portland-based urgent care operator is launching a health plan from scratch
The strategy targets the busy and healthy with the convenience of a retail network providing “store brand care”; …
The battle to own healthcare’s consumer relationship is being nowhere fought more intensely than in the mobile arena. Tea leaves suggest that Aetna has pulled back from trying to own this relationshi…
A number of observers have noted that the Apple’s partnership with Epic on HealthKit could reinforce the role of “closed IT system” strategies in general and Epic’s leading position among EMR vendors …
We've all heard the term, "Boiling the Ocean" to refer to an approach that is broad and ambitious and generally leads to lots of work and very little insight.
Historians will argue about whet…
Samsung and Cigna have agreed to a multi-year development alliance for health applications for the Samsung smartphone. The partners will initially focus on content (access to the health-related tips …
Quick follow-up to our post about the Epic-eClinicalWorks deal: Today’s Healthcare Informatics has an interview with Martin Harrison, CIO of Cleveland Clinic, was asked what is the biggest strategic …
Epic is famous for its intense focus on interoperability across its own systems coupled with its conservatism regarding interoperability with other EMRs. In 2012, KLAS said Epic has the “deepest data…
We live in a society with too much data. In the field of market research, the deluge of data is cited as one of the top challenges leaders face as they search for actionable insights hidden in the dat…
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