Fierce Healthcare January 17, 2019
Healthcare innovators came together Wednesday morning ostensibly to discuss how technology disruption was affecting healthcare delivery.
But a main point of focus for the panel centered instead on what didn’t happen.
From obsolete technologies still in favor to long-held goals still out of reach for the industry, many of the health innovations expected in 2018 didn’t happen, speakers said during a panel held by Politico and CVS Health. The speakers speculated that some of these changes might arrive in 2019—but only if the right regulatory conditions arise.
“I’m a big believer that incentives do shape the arena by which the ecosystem serves patients, so continuing to triple, quadruple down on value-based care” is crucial, said Jay Desai, CEO and co-founder...