Healthcare DIVE January 16, 2019
Dive Brief:
To foster innovation, the Trump administration, regulatory agencies and other healthcare players should place more emphasis on value-based care, prioritize the user experience, foster nontraditional and local partnerships, remove unnecessary regulations and protect consumer data, a panel of industry experts said Wednesday.
The panel, hosted by Politico and CVS Health, argued that meaningful change will come from traditional players fixing their gaze on value-based care, not from any major advances in technology or novel business models.
Amazon was noticeably absent from the discussion. The e-commerce colossus, which usually crops up at one point or another in these conversations on the changing healthcare landscape, was brushed aside. The payer point of view...