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Wednesday, December 9th @12:30 PM CLICK HERE for event details (includes video and materials link) (Video Only) |
Putting "change" and "health care" in the same sentence carries with it great risk of being wrong, or at least sounding naive. After all, the whole point of health care is that it is both cautious and reliable. Its entire structure - from approval of drugs and devices by regulators to adoption of practice guidelines by specialist societies - is dedicated to protecting and enhancing human life, with the former probably a higher priority than the latter.
The predictable and often plodding nature of the health care industry has also provided safe harbor for incumbents of limited value and rentiers. Its highly regulated nature has meant innovations to enhance productivity and quality have been limited. Lastly, the amount of money that pours into the health care system from government, commercial insurers and drug inflation annually has made neccessity, the mother of invention, childless.
After a pandemic, the most aggressive deregulation since Ronald Reagan was president, and unprecedented technological advances, all those things are still true.
Just less so or as a venture capitalist friend of mine said "both" when asked which would disrupt health care, incumbents or Amazon.
Join us for the first of several presentations on how the macro environment has changed, the long term implications for various sectors of health care and how incumbents and challengers will fit into this new world order. We will start on Wednesday by, as one client put it, "taking a step back from the model" and examining the macro environment for health care:
- The money that four stimulus/relief bills have rained on services, diagnostics and biotechnology, including an analysis of contracts, grants and relief funds
- Expanded role of health care in GDP and employment trends
- Utilization and acuity during COVID and implications to providers
- Deregulation of certain services
- Shifts in insurance coverage in response to economic trends
- Changing labor demands created by COVID and the response
- Advances in technology that may enhance productivity
If you have a macro-level topic you would like us to touch on during this first installment, send it in!
Look forward to you joining us.
Emily Evans
