Health

Value-based care for seniors and Medicare members helps Walmart keep pace with Walgreens and CVS.

Virtual Incision’s plans for a robotic space visit highlight the need to make digital surgery devices much smaller.

On today's episode, we discuss what brand new forecasts the forecasting team cooked up in Q2, including influencer marketing spend by platform and tier, luxury ecommerce, and US prescription drug sales. "In Other News," we talk about Apple Pay's meteoric rise and what DoorDash's Q2 performance says about the future of the food delivery space. Tune in to the discussion with our senior forecasting analyst Iwona Drapala and director of forecasting Peter Newman.

We detail the move by retail giants like Walmart into clinical trials and how the data platforms can help maintain equity.

We unpack a new KLAS survey detailing what health system execs are looking for when selecting a cloud vendor.

Researchers are using NIH funding to see if Apple Watch app algorithm can prevent strokes. We wonder if doctors will trust the data.

Healthcare delivery went digital in 2020, and so did healthcare and pharma ad budgets. In fact, 2020 was the only year in which healthcare and pharma overindexed the overall market digital ad spending growth.

We unpack why the move is only the beginning of Amazon’s healthcare playbook.

Admin headaches lead many clinicians to sell their practices—Alma wants to fix that

A new Morgan Stanley report details how only 2% of Prime members use Amazon Pharmacy.

Peloton’s adult user base in the US is still expanding, but year-over-year growth will continue to decelerate from its record high of 115.3% in 2020. From next year through 2026, growth will slow to single digits.

We detail what the acquisition could mean for each healthcare giant’s strategy.

China’s loss is Vietnam’s gain: Apple is diversifying production into Southeast Asia as US relations with China deteriorate. Confidence in Vietnam’s production scalability could accelerate the shift away from China.

We detail nurse staffing solution Incredible Health’s latest $80M raise, and explore what it means for similar startups.

We unpack the potential for cheaper consumer health devices as the FDA makes hearing aids directly available.

Meditation app Calm laid off 20% of its staff, including marketing employees. We detail why advertising costs are becoming difficult for health tech companies to maintain.

Amazon and CVS Caremark are among the top online pharmacies as consumers look to save time and money on their meds—which will outlast the period of economic uncertainty.