At first glance, it looks like health care in the United States is ripe for disruption.
Digital technology advances have the power to help address the shortcomings of care delivery: It costs too much, its quality isn’t what it could and should be, and millions of people live hundreds of miles from the nearest hospital and/or don’t have a primary care doctor. But for many reasons, the incumbents — established health systems — will be extremely hard to displace. Instead, the winners will be health systems that team up with digital tech companies.
Walmart, the world’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer, is also the second-largest online retailer.is an executive in residence at Harvard Medical School. He previously served as the CIO of Partners Healthcare , a senior vice president at Cerner, and the CEO of Siemens Health Services. He is co-chair of the HL7 Advisory Council and a board member of the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
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