Technology is producing transformative changesin health care. For evidence of this, just ask people in the know:health care executives.
|According to MinuteWomen Home Care, a Lexington, Massachusetts-based provider ofhome care services, nearly half (48 percent) of health careexecutives report extensive use of automation for IT tasks. And 47 percent areleveraging intelligent automation for customer interactions.
|Venture capital firms in 2015 invested $4.5 billion in digitalhealth companies. Companies receiving VC funding included techfirms that develop:
personal health tools and tracking solutions (VC funding up 223percent relative to 2014);
care coordination solutions (up 152 percent); and
life science technologies (up 49 percent).
For additional highlights on how health tech is disruptinghealth care, see the infographic below.
|Related: Automation could replace 7 million jobs by2025
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