PUBLICATIONS AND SPEECHES

Health Care Without the Doctor (May 2009)

How New Devices and Technologies Aid Clinicians and Consumers

 Retail Dental Clinics (June 2010)
Millions of Americans have difficulty obtaining routine, preventive oral health care due to a shortage of conveniently located providers and high out-of-pocket costs.
One potential solution: the creation of preventive dental clinics. Similar to retail health clinics, in-store dental clinics would offer a limited scope of basic dental services delivered by appropriately trained dental hygienists or other mid-level staff.
This new CHCF report by Mary Kate Scott, author of two landmark publications about retail health clinics, suggests the business model for these clinics appears promising, with projected costs in line with revenues.  Click here to download the report and the financial model.

The Emergence Of Retail-Based Clinics In The United States: Early Observations (Sep/Oct 2008)
Will these clinics remain niche players, or can they lead the way to an extensive range of affordable, convenient services? 

The Good Practice: Treating Underserved Dental Patients While Staying Afloat (Aug 2008)
This report outlines tools and techniques for helping California dental practices contend with the financial limitations of treating low-income and uninsured patients. 

 
Health Care in the Express Lane: Retail Clinics Go Mainstream (September 2007)
An update to the 2006 report on retail clinics, this publication examines the industry's development.

Health Care in the Express Lane: The Emergence of Retail Clinics (July 2006)
"You're Sick. We're Quick." Retail clinics in grocery, drug, and discount stores promise affordability and convenience and are reshaping consumer options in health care. This landmark report examines this innovation from a national and California perspective. It provides an overview of in-store clinics and converging trends in retail and health care, and explores the potential for these clinics to succeed as a viable business model.

What Medical Device Winners Know How to Do: Seven Imperatives to Transform Your Company's Performance (March 2004)
When medical devices companies win, they win big, earning 31 times their weaker competitors' returns. So what are they doing that their competitors aren't? This article describes seven practices mastered by the best.

Built to Spin-off: Why Health Care Spin-offs Outperform all Others (March 2004)

Tapping into Heart and Handbag of the Increasing Powerful Health Care Consumer
How to capture the shift in consumer decisions and payments through consumer-oriented products, services, and technology.
 

USC Global Bio Business — 2004 Trends in the Venture Capital World (March 2005)

MEDIA

Becker’s Hospital Review Jan 201, 4 ways the Hospital C-Suite will change post reform
(December 2010)

UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS

WRG Retail Clinics
(on Retail Clinic Marketing Innovation)
March 29-31, 2011
Las Vegas

HealthCare Association of New York State
May 19, 2011
"5 Ways the Hospital C-Suite Will Change Given New Business Models and Reform in Healthcare"

SPEECHES

Social Media and Hospital/Healthcare Systems
(June 2010)

FTC Workshop on Innovations in Health Care Delivery
(April 2008)

Retail Clinics go Mainstream – Keynote address to the Retail Clinic Summit
(November 2007)

The Future of Medicine - Implications for HealthCare Delivery Technology Innovations
(February 2007)

Medicare … It's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Health Care
(October 2004)
A speech to young business professionals providing an entertaining look at the flow of information, money, and decisions within the US health care system.