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Unpacking Disparities in Women’s Healthcare
We’ve spoken in the past about the rise of “femtech” in recent years, as investors rush to fund start-ups specifically catering to...

Kirsta Hackmeier
Aug 1, 20246 min read


Preview "The State of Healthcare 2024"
Here at Union, our annually-updated State of Healthcare is the foundation upon which nearly all of our research builds. We know that in...

Yulan Egan
Jul 24, 20247 min read


How to speak comparative international healthcare
Ever have occasion to talk to partners overseas? Ever been drawn into wonky and/or political discussions comparing U.S. healthcare...

Amanda Berra
Jun 27, 20248 min read


Theory versus reality in the state of healthcare disruption
Healthcare disruption has been a hot (and noisy) topic in recent years. For the last decade, the healthcare industry has been rich in...

Amanda Berra
Jun 7, 20245 min read


What private equity ownership doesn't tell you
The role of private equity in hospital, health system, and medical group ownership has received increasing coverage over the past few...

Christopher Kerns
May 30, 20246 min read


We're neither angry nor disappointed
As nearly everyone reading this will know by now, 2024 could be known in healthcare as the Great Retailer Retrenchment. (I coined that....

Christopher Kerns
May 7, 20246 min read


The flywheel and the hedge
We've been talking about the hedge-and-flywheel strategy of the big vertically consolidated healthcare companies for a while now, most...

Christopher Kerns
Apr 24, 20243 min read


Spending is up and mortality is down
The healthcare industry takes a lot of well-earned flack for cost, inefficiency, difficulty of use . . . I could go on, but I won't,...

Christopher Kerns
Apr 16, 20243 min read


When we hit a fifth of GDP
One of the most common laments I hear about the healthcare industry surrounds its share of the U.S. economy. Healthcare first hit 10% of...

Christopher Kerns
Mar 21, 20243 min read


Four predictions for the smart money in 2024
As any casual reader here will surmise, Union Healthcare Insight neither provides investment recommendations, nor endorses companies,...

Christopher Kerns
Feb 26, 20247 min read


PE pulls back and strategic buyers step up
Because we can't help ourselves, we're including two slides in this week's Slide[s] of the Week. Today we're looking at private equity's...

Christopher Kerns
Feb 20, 20242 min read


The big bet of General Catalyst and Summa Health
Last week’s announcement that General Catalyst had signed a letter of intent to acquire Summa Health had been awaited for several months....

Christopher Kerns
Jan 25, 20249 min read
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