4 Ways Health Systems Need To Reinvent Themselves to Compete

For about a decade, digital health has been slowly winning the battle against healthcare’s slow pace of change. Digital found an unexpected ally in Covid, as the pandemic forced health systems to adopt virtual solutions wholesale. 

As we start to come out on the other side, though, some health systems are contemplating returning to the status quo, especially as they’re feeling acute financial strain.

The majority, however, understand that the pandemic constitutes a sea change in the industry — that there is no more status quo. Competitors are rising up to take the place (and the patients) of health systems who aren’t willing to play by the new stakes.

These competitors are no longer just the health systems down the street, but non-traditional, venture backed organizations that are establishing stand-alone clinics with their own networks of providers — offering patients what they call “direct primary care” and targeting specific populations.