As many retail enterprises are aware, whether their eyes on IPOs or simply survival, growth too fast can be the kiss of death. Hospitals and healthcare systems poised to do battle in suburbia and elsewhere via the outpatient clinic model, likewise, have much more to think about than simply location, location, location. Retailization themes rise… [Read more…]
June 8, 2011
If the term food truck is foreign to you, let me catch you up on one of the hottest food and entrepreneurial trends in the past three years, and see if you can make the parallels to retail healthcare. A food truck is the generic term for a mobile vehicle (could be a converted camper… [Read more…]
February 25, 2011
Research shows people spend more money when they shop “situationally”. Situational shopping is defined as purchasing items as a side activity to doing something else. An example would be surfing the web on a smart phone for a restaurant phone number and then buying tickets to a concert in the middle of your search. To… [Read more…]
October 2, 2010
A recent article in Becker’s Hospital Review confirms in a very succinct way, what many of us know: retail healthcare is about to grow in a big way. How it happens, who know? If retail healthcare models itself after the retail world, I bet it happens true to the retail way: popping up like mushrooms… [Read more…]
September 4, 2010
Retailization in healthcare is more than an implementation strategy for making healthcare accessible; it must be a philosophy of doing business in order to be successful. For a facility or system to successfully deploy its resources for maximum reach and benefit, the understanding behind the physical structure needs to be clear. Retailization is not merely… [Read more…]
June 19, 2010
For a few years now, experts have said one of the impending healthcare trends is retailization. Retailization in healthcare is understood as providing healthcare in a way similar to the business model for retail: inexpensive, fast, and accessible. One of the theories supporting this idea is that if healthcare outlets are ubiquitous like ATMs, people are more… [Read more…]
November 7, 2011
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