Forbes February 26, 2018
Between rising care costs and ever-changing insurance regulations, it’s quite the understatement to say that health care has evolved significantly in recent years. But beyond finance and policy, there’s another big change that’s been working its way through the industry: technology.
Throughout 2017, 10 of the country’s largest tech companies, including Apple, Microsoft and Google, were involved in health care equity deals worth $2.7 billion. This is no small sum, and investments of this scale — combined with the existing technologies owned by these corporations — have the potential to permanently alter the way health care is managed, tracked and executed. Fourteen members of Forbes Technology Council offered their predictions for how the growing presence of tech will ultimately change...