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Best Buy has made yet another startup acquisition that enriches its customer value with innovative digital products – GreatCall, a San Diego-based startup offering health and medical-alert devices and services. Most retailers “innovations&#…
The Open Group’s Healthcare Forum recently published (free, but registration required) their version 0.1 ‘snapshot’ for HERA, their proposed ‘Healthcare Enterprise Reference Architecture’. What follows is a quick(ish) review, together with some practical recommendations. I’ll try to be nice –…
I have dedicated my career to healthcare technology. Why? Because I am passionate about putting the patient at the center of their care and believe technology is a catalytic agent that will help organizations achieve that goal. Forrester helps clients …
In the real world, ethics is rarely if ever the primary focus. People engaging with practical issues may need guidance or prompts to engage with ethical questions, as well as appropriate levels of governance.@JPSlosar calls for”a set of easily recogni…
This week, three American companies announced a joint venture to sort out healthcare for their own employees. Ambitious, huh?This is not the first time large American companies have tried to challenge tho market power of healthcare providers. According…
Perhaps no company has been so consistently disruptive as Amazon. Their ability to step in to new markets and upend the status quo by delivering consistent customer experiences with digital innovation that provide scale and price competition is unrival…
For a case study on how marketing must break from past practices, one needn’t look further than two recent announcements, one from CVS and the other from Walgreens. One company is pushing the boundaries of retail healthcare; the other is looking back a…
Digital Will Disrupt Siloed Healthcare Ecosystems in 2018 For those who have alarm fatigue from all the times disruption has been predicted for our industry, but never came to fruition, this time is different. All the drivers for change remain –c…
CVS and Aetna have formalized a merger agreement with CVS set to acquire Aetna for roughly $69 Billion dollars. In deals of this nature, approval hinges on one thing: consumer good. The Department of Justice evaluates mergers of this magnitude to ensur…
CVS and Aetna have formalized a merger agreement with CVS set to acquire Aetna for roughly $69 Billion dollars. In deals of this nature, approval hinges on one thing: consumer good. The Department of Justice evaluates mergers of this magnitude to ensur…
Google after second shot disrupting healthcare-and Apple-with Health 2.0 announcement Google made several announcements Wednesday around new hardware, software, and developer tools. Capitalizing on the demand for digital healthcare solutions, Google rolled out its HealthX API platform through Apigee at Health 2.0 in Santa Clara. The platform provides endpoints for developers to build HIPAA compliant […]
UnitedHealth Group’s acquisition of The Advisory Board Company’s healthcare business for $1.6B is the largest deal of its size for insurers, injecting the organization with new data resources, professional services, and research expertise. IBM’s 2016, $2.6B acquisition of Truven was one of the first signals of the epic, increasing value of healthcare data. Healthcare organizations […]