Current economic headwinds are challenging, and we thought we’d take a momentary reprieve to zoom out and reflect on some of the longer-term trends that are promising. Namely, the rate of healthcare innovation has increased rapidly, owing not only to massive infusions of venture funding in recent years, but also to the achievement of several important milestones. Here we enumerate some of them, as well as propose some questions, opportunities, and food for thought. 1. Modularization of health technology Just as AWS democratized access to online data storage and cloud computing, just as Shopify ubiquitized and accelerated online retail, so…...
The accelerating rate of healthcare innovation
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