World Economic Forum: Why Healthcare Needs To Be Unbundled and Rebundled

Many health systems around the world are failing patients. From Dhaka to Nairobi to Detroit, our health systems were primarily built to provide acute care and designed to serve institutions – government, hospitals, insurers – not patients or caregivers. Every attempt to digitize them, meanwhile hits the same wall: a misaligned and unsustainable architecture – effective at emergencies, but ill-suited for long-term health.

More money, more technology, including AI, will not fix a flawed system. The problem isn’t tools. It’s architecture.

Read the full piece by Ashwini Sharan, Medtronic LABS board member, and Abhishek Jain, Medtronic LABS strategic advisor, on WEF Forum Stories.