Newswise May 20, 2019
Innovative Technologies Require Innovative Ways of Thinking
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), opened its ISPOR 2019 annual conference this morning with a keynote and first plenary, “The Dawn of Disruption in the Health Sector: Will Innovative Technologies Require Innovative Thinking?”
The conference began with a keynote address by Daniel Kraft, MD, faculty chair for medicine, Singularity University, founder and chair, Exponential Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. Dr Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. His keynote explored the impact of disruptive medical therapies on medicine today and into the future, setting the stage for the plenary session.
Dr Kraft contrasted the current “sick care” model that is intermittent, reactive, and...