MedCity News January 12, 2024
The innovator’s mindset is shifting from solving the problems right in front of us to solving problems once considered impossible to fix. The lines between curable and incurable diseases are blurring in surgery because medical devices are scaling up precision and scaling down the size of anatomy that surgeons can operate on.
The economics of healthcare have long incentivized innovation around commonplace conditions with high patient volumes. Consider the century-plus of discovery in cardiovascular disease, the most common cause of death in the world. The Archives of Internal Medicine published the first concept of the pacemaker in 1932 and the first attempt at electrical defibrillation dates to 1775.
Our approach to medical discovery, however, must evolve as technology grows more...
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