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AHA Center for Health Innovation’s Market Scan | Center
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The Disruptors Are Getting Disrupted — 5 Takeaways
Walmart’s announcement last week that it will close its 51 health centers in five states and exit virtual care services stunned many observers.
Special Report: How Health Care Disruptors will Transform the Field in 2024
AHA Market Scan special report explores which companies aim to deliver transformational change in 2024.
3 Takeaways from the HLTH Conference
Amid the sound bites and substance delivered at the recent HLTH conference, health care leaders, transformers and innovators shared how they plan to reshape care delivery, partner to drive innovation and help consumers get greater access to obesity and diabetes medications along with a greater holistic focus on weight management.
6 Digital Health Startups to Watch in 2022
A record $37.9 billion poured into the U.S. digital health market in 2021, according to CB Insights’ recent “State of Digital Health” report. A large share of that money helped fund startups focusing on telehealth, mental health and wellness, and digital therapeutics.
Who Knew Primary Care Could Be So Difficult? Amazon Care to Close
Amazon Care, the virtual and in-home primary care service developed by its parent company in 2019 to serve Amazon staff and later other employers, launched with great fanfare. The online retailer said it will shutter the program by year-end, a surprising move given the company’s recent investments in health care businesses.
Disruption in Health Care
Disruption is taking hold of health care, with major retail pharmacy chains, payers, technology companies and others making their presence felt. In the race to transform care delivery, reduce health care costs and improve access to meet consumer expectations, this is a defining moment. This report examines some of the key moves by Amazon, Apple, CVS Health/Aetna, Google/Alphabet, Walgreens and Walmart over the past year and how these developments may support the firms’ larger ambitions in the field going forward.
Why 2022 Will Be a Year of Disruptor Differentiation
If 2021 will be remembered as the great expansion of retail health care, 2022 is likely to be defined as the year of disruptor differentiation.
Digital Strategies Stall as Disruptors Advance
In the marathon that the COVID-19 pandemic has become, hospitals and health systems set a brisk early pace in transforming digitally. Telehealth services scaled rapidly as organizations adopted clinically integrated digital strategies and shifted how and where they deliver services. That momentum, however, has stalled as telehealth use dramatically leveled off since the pandemic’s peak, according to the Kaufman Hall 2021 Healthcare Consumerism Survey.
2018’s Health Care Disruptors
New entrants are seeking ways to provide a better care experience through consumer-driven, innovative approaches. The AHA Center for Health Innovation's Disruptor Framework identifies three market forces driving the disruption of legacy hospital and health system business models and classifies disruptors into six key archetypes.