Opinion: Digital health is overlooking its biggest opportunity for disruption
For years, tech behemoths and digital health innovators have attempted to “reinvent” health care, but they’ve ignored the institutional infrastructure issues that plague the people who deliver care — doctors, nurses, physician assistants, and others — or tried to replace their function altogether. The results have been only small gains and larger skepticism.
Health care innovators and disruptors have missed the sweet spot for change by taking aim at the wrong components of the industry: its practitioners.
