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Healthcare Is Leaving the Hospital. Its Technology Has to Catch Up
As more healthcare moves into clinics, homes and other outpatient settings, the biggest technology challenge may no longer be digitising…
The New Drug Advantage Is No Longer Just the Drug
Medicine is entering a phase where the value of a breakthrough depends not only on what the drug does, but…
Mental Wellbeing Platforms Are Quietly Becoming Border Businesses
A rapidly diverging patchwork of state laws is quietly turning mental wellbeing platforms into jurisdiction-aware products, where the exact same…
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The Next Mental Wellbeing Platform May Not Be an App. It May Become a Companion to Everyday Life
Mental wellbeing platforms are evolving from libraries of content into continuous support systems that can recognise patterns, personalise interventions and…
The Next Pharmaceutical Company May Not Look Like a Pharmaceutical Company
For decades, the pharmaceutical business has been built around a familiar sequence: discover a molecule, prove it works, navigate clinical…
Bioinformatics Is Becoming the Operating System for Biology
Bioinformatics was once the discipline that helped scientists make sense of biological data. It is becoming something much more ambitious.…
The Fitness Tracker Is Becoming Something Much Bigger
Fitness technology is moving beyond counting steps and workouts toward continuously understanding how an individual responds to exercise, creating a…
The Brain Is Becoming a New Interface. Who Will Build the World Around It?
For decades, computers have been designed around the limits of the human body: keyboards, screens, microphones, cameras and touchscreens. Neurotechnology…
The Hospital May Be Becoming Less Important
The future of healthcare may depend less on building bigger hospitals and more on building systems that know when a…