HIT Consultant December 28, 2018
As always, this year was full of interesting developments in healthcare. As the year comes to a close, we’ve rounded up three trends that we feel are going to significantly impact the landscape of health tech and digital health in 2019 and beyond. Trends are only interesting if we examine the impact, so let’s hone in on how each of these trends will affect company strategies and hence their leadership roles in digital health.
Trend 1: Large-scale mergers and vertical integrations
Since 2015, following the expansion of the Affordable Care Act insurance coverage, providers have struggled with weaker margins—in fact, 65% of health systems experienced an average 38.7% operating margin decline over that time period. To combat this trend and...