H&HN July 12, 2016
It’s hard to have a conversation about technology without bringing up health care. We talk about handheld devices to carry out physician consultations; a recent article estimates that by 2020 more than 100 million wearable sensors will be in use worldwide; the volume of health data that can be collected and processed is staggering. Many in the field believe the Internet of Things will dramatically change how health care is consumed in the near future.
While the proliferation of gadgets will drive consumers to take more ownership of managing their health, leaders of health care institutions need to recognize that innovative business models, not technology, will drive adoption and transformation.
The evolution of handheld devices gives us an example. In...