Just a a couple weeks into earning season, there is without a doubt a heightened demand for innovation in health care. To date, we have seen THC report use of real-time data to support management of staffing and match it to acuity and capacity. They have installed robotic systems in 20 hospitals. JNJ and THC report higher utilization in ASCs. WBA announced a new investment in VillageMD. Of course, these are all trends that were well underway before COVID-19, episodic and spotty, but still moving forward.
It won't stop there.
UNH's Optum unit is setting the pace at the Minnesota behemoth, making us wonder if health insurance will be a thing in 10 years. Policy priorities and modern realities mean patient acquisition for clinical trials is more accessible than ever and everything from health systems to EHR companies are responding. Telehealth, which probably had a five year runway as a insurance-based service (TDOC) is quickly receding into the infrastructure of every provider.
Knowing full-well that much more innovation will be needed to address labor shortages, high patient needs and a very different world, most major health care companies have been out in force providing resources for innovators with the goal of better, stronger, faster.
Coming off his recent conference, What's Next for Health Care, Matthew Holt has the wit and wisdom to debate these and other trends. Please join us:
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About Matthew Holt: Best known as the founder of The Health Care Blog (THCB) and (with Indu Subaiya) the Health 2.0 conferences, Matthew splits his time between THCB, Catalyst @ Health 2.0 (not owned by HIMSS), and the SMACK.health Advisory service for health tech startups,
Starting in 2007 (yup, before Digital Health was cool!) Health 2.0 was the leading conference series showcasing frontier technologies in health care. In April 2017 HIMSS bought the conference side of Health 2.0.
Catalyst @ Health 2.0 was the other part of Health 2.0 and never went over to HIMSS. It runs challenges for organizations like Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, innovation programs for organizations like the World Bank, market intelligence services, and it owns the SourceDB which has more health tech companies in it than you can imagine!
The Health Care Blog has been a leading source of opinion, news and interviews about health and health technology since 2003, now with 100k visitors or so a month. It also features my short but sweet "Health in 2 Point 00" videos with Jessica DaMassa which runs down the latest in Digital Health deals, and the weekly #THCBGang live video/podcast where I wrangle a group of health care know-it-alls.
At SMACK.health Matthew also advises startups navigating the health care world.
During his career Matthew has spent nearly 30 years in health care and health care IT as a generalist forecaster and strategist; worked for renowned forecasting (IFTF) and polling (Harris) organizations; conducted several ground breaking in-depth studies about many aspects of health care, and delivered several keynote addresses all over the world (and now all over Zoom). He says he knows a few people too.
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