Financial Times - These trends are already pervasive within public healthcare systems and private medical contexts. Digital tools and advice websites change how patients engage with medicine. Hamstrung by tight regulation, legacy technology and sluggish working processes, many public health systems lag the latest innovations emerging from the healthcare start-up community. The UK’s National Health Service acknowledged this in 2015 when it aimed to foster and implement technology-driven tools through a start-up accelerator programme. Last year it launched a tech funding scheme. According to Will Gibbs, a health expert at British venture capital firm Octopus Ventures, economic pressure within the US private market is a differentiator for technology innovation compared with the NHS...>>>
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