Consumer Products

Healthcare Vending Machines

I know there are places in the world with quite advanced vending machine technologies and options, but as we bear witness to the...

What if McDonald's did Healthcare?

Here’s your COVID19 shot, would you like fries with that?

A Bundle of Joy: How Lifestyle Bundling Could Rewrite Healthcare

As Big Retail, Big Tech and Big Entertainment battle it out to reach the next level of consumer engagement, the lifestyle category of...

Who Will Win Consumer Healthcare?

The answer may surprise you Many leaders of industry are competing to create a new consumer healthcare experience, with a focus on...

Health Entertainment is Here

It’s incredible what we will do if we have the right story. Imagine playing a game where you are tasked with capturing unique monster...

Disney Wins the Metaverse

Disney has already won the metaverse. While VCs make their bets on metaverse maybes and headlines continue to argue over hyperbolic...

The Future of Healthcare? Entertainment

The future of healthcare will be fueled by entertainment. And it won’t even be recognizable as “healthcare”. But rather just a part of...

A New Hope for Healthcare Disruption

Last week I was delighted to read Rock Health’s report on Healthcare’s Middle Children. Finally, some recognition of companies who could...

What if Disney did Healthcare?

What if Disney did healthcare? I spent three years asking health executives this very question. Many found the question intriguing, but...

Big Tech Won't Solve Healthcare

Another one bites the dust And another one gone, another one gone…. Google Health has called it quits on a unified strategy to target...

Why Gamification Won’t Solve Treatment Adherence

Browsing the App Store for treatment adherence applications, you will find dozens of products. While many boast appealing user interfaces...

Social+ Health

Digital health is anti-social. No one likes today’s digital health products and platforms. Digital health doesn’t fit into our digital...

Can Amazon Fix Adherence? Part 1

Amazon announced the long anticipated debut of Amazon Pharmacy. Although many are clamoring over Amazon’s pharmacy disruption, there’s a...

When Content is Your Savior

It’s no surprise that Proctor and Gamble is creating their own streaming content.

The Coming Convergence of Healthcare and Entertainment

Healthcare is failing. Consumers are increasingly alienated from big insurers, big pharma and the consolidation of providers.