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A disruptive industry
Broadly, healthtech can be defined as the application of digital technology to improve health or care delivery.
Since 1900 the global average life expectancy has more than doubled and is now above 70 years. The inequality of life expectancy is still very large across and within countries. in 2019 the country with the lowest life expectancy is the Central African Republic with 53 years, in Japan life expectancy is 30 years longer
New type of population means new needs
HealthTech is define by Healhtech base as the sector which includes all software, data, and physical solutions that are enabled by revolutionary innovations outside of the healthcare sector but which, in turn, support new opportunities for data generation & analytics, or digital diagnosis or treatment
Healthcare IT refers to software solutions that support optimisation of operations through digitisation of historically offline systems and processes (predominantly for providers)
Digital health includes includes technology and computational approaches associated with generating and analysing large datasets in order to build knowledge or optimise outcomes
Healtech multiple benefits
- Disease prevention
- improved diagnosis for complex pathologies
- Personalized approach to cure diseases
- Patient empowrement
- Automation of hospitals
- Better access to healthcare in remote places
- Healthcare at Home with remote control
Healthtech funding records
The last 10 years cumulative digital health funding reach circa 70 usd billions
Limitless innovations
Healthtech as an answer to skilled professionals shortage
Sectors impacted
Many sectors have been already impacted by the introduction of new technologies
