Intermountain Healthcare is handing off its retail pharmacy operations to CVS after experiencing massive losses with the venture—a nod to how digital health transformation is inciting greater cross-pollination across the healthcare ecosystem.

And it’s not just patients who are warming up to the idea of telehealth being a permanent fixture of the healthcare ecosystem:. 58% of physicians view telehealth more favorably than they did pre-pandemic. And 40% of consumers say they’ll continue to use telehealth in the future—up from 11% pre-pandemic, per a 2021 analysis from McKinsey. What does the next chapter of telehealth look like?

Digital health transformation is spurring an explosion of digitized health data—making analytics capabilities more important than ever.

Health systems that are already looking to build out their digital health ecosystems may find it more convenient to invest in a comprehensive solution, like Philips'. In addition to all its HealthSuite features, Philips also has its own cybersecurity services arm, and a remote patient monitoring offering (via its $2.8 billion acquisition of BioTelemetry).

How we got here: This isn’t Best Buy’s first foray into digital health—it acquired two other healthcare companies before:. It acquired GreatCall in 2018 for $800 million and Critical Signal Technologies in 2019.

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How we got here: Google Cloud’s new API diversifies its portfolio of healthcare cloud offerings, which have already nabbed the attention of players from every corner of the digital health ecosystem.

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Best Buy Health also has its own senior-focused virtual care ecosystem that connects remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices, telehealth, and home visits. Best Buy’s Caring Center specialists observe users’ health data and reach out when they spot any unusual changes. When necessary, the Caring Center team can connect users with their preferred on-demand care provider.

These partnerships indicate that Microsoft is casting a wide net across the healthcare ecosystem, and it could synergize its different healthcare endeavors down the road. 2. In March, Microsoft launched Microsoft Mesh. This is a new mixed reality platform that uses its HoloLens headset to project a hologram of a person or objects that users can interact with as if they’re there in person.

We then outline the benefits that virtual care offers for players across the healthcare ecosystem—including health systems, payers, and clinical researchers.

This report explains the rise of tech-focused SDOH initiatives among US health insurers and hospitals, unpacks how these entities’ heavier focus on SDOH has ushered in opportunities for digital health vendors and tech companies operating at the periphery of healthcare to help address nonclinical health gaps, and lays out the factors driving the prioritization of SDOH and inhibiting these efforts’ growth.

VillageMD introduced DocOS in 2018, a digital health platform focused on primary care.

In May 2020, for example, Nvidia launched Clara Guardian, an application framework and partner ecosystem that combine smart sensors and multimodal AI to help developers build smart hospital solutions like fall detection, infection control, thermal sensing, and patient monitoring.

Both markets are being driven by the undercurrent of a burgeoning population of seniors in the US—who are also increasingly warming up to digital health tech. Telemedicine use among adults 65+ increased 300% during the pandemic, more than any other age group.

For example, Amazon could create a whole ecosystem to provide seamless care: Amazon Pharmacy could complement the medical care consumers receive from Amazon Care services, Amazon’s HIPAA-compliant Alexa could be used to make appointments or monitor health, and Amazon HealthLake could be leveraged to optimize in-person care when needed.

Build out a partner ecosystem. Healthcare organizations should evaluate which vendors—including telecoms, hardware, software, content, and other tech providers—they’d like to include in their partner ecosystem for the various applications of 5G. Prepare for a hybrid environment.

This “triple threat” will help companies refine their visions for smart homes, connected mobility, digital health, smart cities and other interconnected environments. Technology convergence is giving birth to an ecosystem of new inter- and intra-industry partnerships among companies that, in the past, may have made strange bedfellows.

Super Apps Are Poised to Become the New Face of Latin America’s Digital Ecosystem. Across the region, several players like Rappi, Mercado Libre, and Magazine Luiza have sought to become the one-stop shop for consumers by incorporating their ecommerce platforms, financial services solutions, and vast delivery networks into one unified ecosystem.