Forbes June 7, 2019
The health care industry has, in many ways, always lagged behind other verticals when it comes to adopting new technologies. A monolithic regulatory framework has historically kept technological disruption at bay, and until recently, providers tended to focus on the services provided directly to patients rather than on patient outcomes.
So what is driving the massive transformation we’re seeing now?
Well, no discussion about modern technological innovation is complete without throwing around terms like big data, AI, machine learning and blockchain. As the former chief technology officer at pharmaceutical firm MedCenter Canada Inc., I’ve learned that the popular comparison of big data to teenage sex captures this phenomenon nicely: “No one really knows how it works, but everyone says they’re...
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