The Innovation Ultimatum

10Keeping Healthcare Healthy

What Every Business Can Learn from Healthcare Tech

Technology will transform the delivery of healthcare, a revolution that is already well under way. Super sensors, boosted by sophisticated AI, will enable clinicians to “see” their patients in a way that they have never seen them before. AI will augment the diagnostic capabilities of doctors, offering them a second pair of eyes and a valued second opinion. Ultimately, AI may take on lower-level diagnosis and care, allowing doctors to focus on the more challenging cases and spend more quality time with the patients that need it most. Remote sensing, using a combination of wearables and in-home sensing, will maintain a constant connection between patients and clinicians, transforming the nature of their relationship and turning the current healthcare model upside down.

The Challenge: Meeting the Needs of an Aging Population

This shake-up of our pre-internet healthcare system can't come soon enough. Without it, the existing system will struggle to handle the increased demand for health services that is predicted for the coming decades: patients will suffer, costs will spiral, and eventually the system will collapse. To meet future demand, improve the quality of care, and improve outcomes, we must reimagine healthcare.

The global population is aging. Americans over the age of 65 will outnumber children by 2035 (Source: U.S. Census Bureau). By 2060, almost one quarter of the American population will ...