The Science of Delivering Health Care
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Technology is swiftly disrupting all the norms of health care delivery, and more radical change lies ahead. Unmanned aerial vehicles (better known as drones) are delivering supplies; health services are moving out of medical settings and into the community; telemedicine is bringing specialty care to remote areas; and “collective superintelligence” at the intersection of humans, machines, and organizations is aggregating vast amounts of clinical information to provide diagnostic insights. What’s next in health care delivery?
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