Forbes September 16, 2020
Guest post by Maor Cohen
In his seminal 2011 essay, Why Software is Eating the World, famed innovator Marc Andreessen lists a wide range of industries—from books and movies to oil and gas and national defense—that had already been transformed by software.
A notable omission: healthcare, which he claimed was up next. Healthcare spend represented about 10% of the world’s GDP before the coronavirus, and in the U.S. alone, has been growing by $200 billion+annually.
With a pandemic raging worldwide, healthcare has become a leading concern for everyone, and this notoriously sluggish industry has been forced to transform overnight.
A sector that large has gravity, and, like software a decade ago, is exerting increasing influence on broad swaths...
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