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The Strategist in Brief: July 23, 2026
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This week's episode covers Amazon's evolving One Medical strategy and health system partnerships, physician specialty happiness survey results, and HHS's delay of the HIPAA Security Rule update.
This is The Strategist in Brief for July twenty-third, twenty twenty-six, Your quick audio rundown of the top headlines from Strategy Catalyst's newsletter. Here's what strategy leaders should know this week This week's key market dive explores Amazon's evolving strategy for One Medical and its referral partnerships with health systems. While One Medical's finances haven't been publicly reported since the Amazon acquisition, health system partnerships accounted for twenty-five percent of the primary care chain's revenue in twenty twenty-two. After a slow start in some markets, One Medical is now generating a growing volume of referrals for its health system partners. One Medical is exploring deeper integrations with its health system partners, such as the new clinic located inside one of Montefiore Health System's largest outpatient facilities. The co-located clinic could facilitate joint and same-day appointments across specialties and might help Montefiore lock in its referral partnership with One Medical While One Medical has slowed expansion into new markets, Amazon is using the primary care business as a platform for a growing suite of pharmacy, AI, and telehealth offerings This week's featured graphic showcases a recent survey by Medscape exploring which medical specialties are the happiest and most sustainable. Doctors in specialties with predictable schedules, like dermatology, are happier than doctors in fields with unpredictable schedules and higher acuity, like emergency medicine. To improve retention, health systems need to rethink how work is structured and how tools like AI can be used to reduce tedious administrative work. Be sure to check out the full newsletter to see the graphic. And finally, the Department of Health and Human Services is delaying a proposed update to the HIPAA security rule that would tighten cybersecurity requirements. The agency received nearly five thousand comments, including many from health systems and provider advocates calling for the rule to be withdrawn, citing compliance burdens and unreasonable timelines. The delay gives providers until July 2027 to prepare. But HHS is unlikely to abandon the rule altogether. Health systems are caught between two competing priorities for HIPAA reform: making health information more shareable and accessible and protecting it from cyberattacks. That concludes this week's edition. Be sure to check out the full version on the web at hmacademy.com. Thanks for listening.