Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Mary Meeker's "Internet Trends 2019"

Well, I guess we have the answer to the concern posed when Mary and her merry band divorced (opposite of 'marry') KPCB last year:
Mary Meeker Is Leaving Kleiner Perkins and Leading an Exodus Amidst Huge Split 
The divorce attorneys are already working on the custody agreements for the slide deck.....

From ZD Net:

Mary Meeker's 2019 Internet Trends report spotlights health care digitization
The digitization of the entire health care ecosystem is underway, the annual report shows, with consumer demand driving the trend.
Driven by consumer demand, the health care sector in the US is steadily digitizing, according to Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report. While this trend may be most evident in the use of consumer tools, such as health wearables, digitization is underway across the entire healthcare ecosystem -- hospital administrators are updating their record-keeping systems, researchers have access to troves of new digital data and doctors are offering more data-driven, personalized forms of care.

Meeker, the Bond Capital founder and former Kleiner Perkins general partner, has tracked internet statistics and technology trends since 1995. The digitization of the health care industry, she notes, correlates with the rising cost of health care in the US -- a looming issue for consumers and the government. In the US, consumers not only have to contend with relatively high costs, compared to the rest of the world, but also relatively poor outcomes, according to some metrics.
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In this context, patients are increasingly using a range of digital health tools to become more engaged in health care decision-making. Compared with 2015, a larger portion of Americans now use online health information, online provider reviews, mobile health tracking, wearables and live video telemedicine......
.....MUCH MORE

From Ms Meeker's Bond Capital:
Slide deck (333 slides)

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