Newsweek May 15, 2023
The creation of innovation hubs in healthcare to rapidly prototype emerging tech in areas like wearables and telemedicine can not only save healthcare systems billions of dollars, but improve outcomes for all involved.
The U.S. healthcare system has long been criticized, at best for being complicated and expensive — at worst for being draconian and broken.
The critiques aren’t unfounded. A recent study showed the U.S. spends more on healthcare than any other high-income country in the world, yet has the highest rate of patients with chronic disease and the lowest life expectancy at birth.
But there’s a shift happening at the intersection of health and technology, accelerated by the pandemic. Smart technology is solving complex and widespread issues from...