Personalized healthcare and better population health? Here’s how digital can help achieve that

• Technology is bringing us closer to personalized healthcare and optimized population health.
• But how we apply emerging technologies and digital innovation in healthcare needs to be strategic.
• Every aspect of healthcare, from R&D to manufacturing and pharma executives, must embrace a “Man + Machine” reality and collaborate to innovate.

In November 2019, an Italian surgeon used a virtual reality headset to travel more than 100 kilometres from his location in Rome to an operating room in Terni. His mission? To oversee a laparoscopic procedure being performed in real-time. Thanks to 5G’s low latency, the physician was able to view...