The Great Consolidation, Part 3: The Three Organizing Categories for Employer Health Services
The Great Consolidation series is an attempt to articulate my views on how the exploding numbers of digital health apps, as well as growing number of companies claiming to be Full Stack health platforms, will begin to coalesce around a few leaders. My particular focus remains on the Employer Health space, but the trend applies […]
The Great Consolidation, Part 2: The Four Pillars of Full Stack Care
In Part 1 of this series, I described the impending “Great Consolidation” in the Digital Health and Employer Health space using the past history of the platform wars that we saw with the desktop computer, mobile phones, and electronic health records to demonstrate that an ecosystem of 1,000’s of solutions is simply not sustainable. The [&he
The Great Consolidation, Part 1: The Employer Health Platform Wars
Fueled by COVID-related demand for virtual care technologies, the growth in digital health funding has been nothing short of spectacular. According to sources, total funding for “digital health” venture capital, debt, and public market financing reached $21.6 billion in 2020, an increase of an amazing 103% from the $10.6 billion raised in 2019. This has