DIGITAL DISRUPTION IN HEALTH CARE: The $8.7 trillion opportunity in digital health

 

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Health care is a multi-trillion-dollar behemoth of the global economy — but it has a complicated relationship with technology, embracing some innovative tools while resisting others. Whether patients and their doctors are ready or not, though, digital disruption in health care will only accelerate in the years ahead.

 

Technology makes it easier for doctors to perform complex procedures, gives them access to more powerful drugs, and helps them avoid harmful errors. But in the digital age, gathering and using data is just as important if not more so.

 

In a new report from BI Intelligence, we analyze digital disruption in health care, looking at clinical operations and the role of electronic medical records. We identify the expanded scope of medical care and how patients will use health devices in their everyday lives, as well as survey the possible impediments to the digitization of health care in regulation, workflow resistance, and privacy concerns…

 

Read the full article provided by Peter Newman  at http://www.businessinsider.com/digital-disruption-in-health-care-the-87-trillion-opportunity-in-digital-health-2017-5.