While the answer will become obvious as you read along, thefact that we are even asking this question validates why healthcare is laggingbehind in technology compared to other industries. How come the oil drillingindustries have technology that allows drills to auto navigate to find oil sources and positions a deep sea oil rig within a few feet of accuracy? Theanswer is applied engineering. Other industries apply right technology for aspecific problem. But in healthcare, we are catching up on “storing” and“printing” patient records. EMRs should be the lowest common denominator.With that said, Technology Executives have a duty to think about applied engineering in healthcare.
All these technologies will play a major role (indirectly,in most cases) in healthcare and as leaders we need to be ready to anticipatethis adapt to the impact.
The common thread that links all these technologies listedabove is that they have all been in the Technology Review published by MIT asthe top 10 Emerging Technologies.