Walmart recently convened a Retail Health Summit in Bentonville, Arkansas, bringing together representatives from the broad landscape of retail health stakeholders. Jane keynoted the event, and her speech is summarized in this special report from Drug Store News.
I have the best job in the world because I get to collaborate with brilliant people like Amy Heymans, pioneering UX and digital designer. Amy and I are longtime colleagues and friends, and we had to say "yes" to Jared Johnson who invited us on to his podcast the Healthcare Rap, part of Shift Forward. You'll really love hearing from Amy on our 2023 Predictions Series: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn & Amy Heymans - Shift Forward Health - Omny.fm show -- and hopefully form me, too!
Dr. Joe Kvedar is a pioneer in telehealth: I first met Joe when I did research for the California Healthcare Foundation on the history of telemedicine (publishedin CHCF's paper, Right Here, Right Now: Ten Telehealth Pioneers Make it Work, published in November 2008! Fourteen years later, I was delighted to spend time brainstorming the state of telehealth post-pandemic, and future prospects.
Innovation in health care in 2023 will not be remembered for the shiny new things in digital health nor heady valuations in bullish venture capital boardrooms. In 2023, the sexy innovation thing will be integration, I explain, in my January 2023 column for Medecision which analyzes observations from #JPM2023 and #CES2023.