IDG Contributor Network: Digital health is a marriage of medical entrepreneurs and tech superstars

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Power brokers in the fields of tech and healthcare entrepreneurship must work together to discover the truest innovations.

Digital health entrepreneurs are in the catbird seat as we march toward a tech-focused future. These businesspeople have an opportunity to launch products and services to solve one of the most complex and burdensome problems facing our nation: The cost of healthcare.

Costs are higher and outcomes worse than almost all analysis of the industry suggest should occur, according to David M. Cutler of Harvard University. “In other industries characterized by inefficiency, efficient firms expand to take over the market, or new firms enter to eliminate inefficiencies,” Cutler explains. “This has not happened in medical care, however.”

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