Healthcare Innovation October 17, 2024
Expert: healthcare must shift to a need-based delivery model to improve the health of populations
Six out of ten people in the U.S. suffer a chronic condition (diabetes, hypertension, etc.); life expectancy is at a 20-year low, and healthcare cost per capita at $13,000 annually in the U.S. is the most expensive in the world, growing at 2x nominal inflation.
This state of our nation’s health requires real solutions that can be put in to place by clinicians and health consumers without the government being involved. To do so, health care providers might consider embracing a suite of consumer technologies (ambient, wearables, medical IoT) that can rapidly extend the capacity of health systems and hospitals beyond their four walls.
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