Forbes January 19, 2023
By Cory Wiegert, Chief Operating Officer of Integra Connect, LLC.
Starting in 2015, some of the industry’s largest technology and investment organizations set out to transform healthcare, committing resources to improve patient outcomes, speed drug development, and reduce the burden of diseases on populations across the world. However, these titans of industry struggled to solve fundamental healthcare challenges with data, much less eliminate illness.
But does that mean data and technology don’t have a place in healthcare? Absolutely not. Does it mean their approach was wrong—or even more, their data was wrong? Maybe.
In the world of “big data,” there are 800-pound gorillas and niche, specialty-specific unicorns. It might be tempting to brand these unicorns as scrappy start-ups, but that...