The business of medicine is inefficient, expensive, and ripe for disruption.
While true reform in the global healthcare industry will require all the relevant parties—government, industry, and health care consumers themselves—to make major adjustments, an insurgent group of digital health companies is doing its best to drag medicine into the 21st century.
This is what sets health care apart from other industries. The business of medicine is quite literally one of life and death. And throughout much of the world, it remains a messy, inefficient, expensive sector in need of radical reform.
These companies are harnessing the power of mobile technology, making the act of taking your medicine less of a hassle, and peering into our very biological building blocks to wage war on the most intractable maladies.
Here are 21 companies that are using technology to reinvent it—and to change our lives in the process.
I’m sharing this because Africa bears a big brunt of the global disease and healthcare burden. I’m confident African entrepreneurs can borrow ideas from these companies.
Read the fulla article at: Fortune.com
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