Healthcare Services & HCIT Insights: 10 takeaways from the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

As always, there was plenty of robust discussion across industry leaders on the forces shaping the sector and their businesses at J.P. Morgan’s 41st Annual Healthcare Conference this year. Lauren Ruane , Co-Head of Healthcare, Middle Market Banking & Specialized Industries identified the following key takeaways.

1. General optimism that secular tailwinds continue to support investment & development of innovative care delivery models and healthcare technology.
2. Primary care retains prominence as point of control for ever-increasing specialty spend.
3. Labor shortages and clinician burnout remain paramount challenges with tech spend on automation continuing to ramp.
4. “Retailization” of both primary care and specialty models to address consumer experience expectations and desire for more comprehensive “one-stop-shop” care.
5. Virtual care transcending episodic to be an increasing part of the ongoing patient journey across specialties.
6. Accelerating shift of care into the home across acuity spectrum with improved remote monitoring and EMR coordination.
7. Despite lengthening sales cycles, HCIT solutions providing tangible, near-term returns demonstrating healthy growth.
8. Informal dialogue vs. formal processes around potential strategic/commercial partnerships and capital raising.
9. Expectation that proliferation of point healthcare tech solutions will lead to consolidation wave in 2023 and beyond.
10. Shift to value deepens across constituents with self-funded employers increasingly active in deploying related navigation & coordination tools.

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