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Healthcare organizations continually face emerging trends and new challenges threatening current business models and competitive positioning.
Filtering out the noise and focusing on what is most important and impactful is complicated, and if not done thoughtfully, can inform misguided business decisions. Our insights simplify the complex and drive focus on the most relevant strategic and operational factors.
Round of 8 Results: Rookies Elevate Threat Level, Deliver Patient-Forward Trends
With deafening volume, this tournament is broadcasting explicitly that healthcare continues an ever-accelerating, mathematically preposterous rate of change. It sounds...
Round of 16 Results: Cinderellas Cause Mayhem, Show Next-Level Change in Healthcare
What a difference a year makes! In the 2023 March Healthcare Classic, all Cinderellas were eliminated in the Round of...
Healthcare Landscape Round of 32 Results: Widespread Upsets in Newcomer Nation
The underdogs come out swinging! In the first minutes of this tournament, the championship is already busting brackets with no...
Delivery Round of 32 Results: Consumers Contend for Control
Like the Healthcare Landscape Region, the Delivery Region is riddled with rookie teams. Most interesting in this group is the...
Technology Round of 32 Results: Patients Get Preference
The most experienced corner of the bracket opened with a rash of exhilarating upsets, proving that even while the Technology...
Payment Round of 32 Results: Novel Approaches Make In-Roads
The first round in the Payment Region is marked by a rash of easy wins, including a few upsets. One...
Meet the Healthcare Landscape Region: A Newcomer Takeover
This corner of the bracket traditionally includes broad macrotrends that impact the industry across the entire ecosystem. Last year, the...
Meet the Delivery Region: Patients in Sharper Focus
In the Delivery Region, we’ve got some exciting first-time contestants – six of the eight trends are making their debut...
Meet the Technology Region: A Maturing of Trends
The Technology Region always brings innovative players to the tournament who are willing to try something new to secure the...
Meet the Payment Region: Hello, Stress Fractures
Focused on cost, economics, and financial risk, this region sees the return of several power players, most remarkably, the Evolution...
Healthcare Industry Trend
Expansion of Self Care
The emergence of AI-enabled symptom checkers, at-home diagnostics, asynchronous care and other solutions will enable more patients to self-diagnose and...
Healthcare Industry Trend
Personalization of Medicine
This year will see great strides toward personalized medicine, as providers partner with technology/wearables companies (like Apple) to study disease...
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ro3’s annual March Healthcare Classic
ro3’s annual March Healthcare Classic compares the year’s most impactful healthcare trends as they face off in a competitive bracket to reveal what industry trends reign supreme.
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