Healthcare DIVE April 30, 2019
Rebecca Pifer

Dive Brief:

  • Civica Rx CEO Martin Van Trieste is among the healthcare players cheering on Amazon’s bid to disrupt the industry, noting the e-commerce giant’s focus on the consumer experience and unwillingness to work within the status quo position it to succeed and be imitated.
  • “It’s going to be Amazon at the end of the day … once they do it, it’ll be a stampede,” Van Trieste said at the World Healthcare Congress in Washington, D.C. Monday.
  • Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Robert Pearl and Manatt Ventures’ technology group leader Lisa Suennen agreed, saying that government and legacy businesses alike have their hands tied by perverse financial incentives, making them unlikely candidates for disruption.
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