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Healthtech and the digital healthcare revolution

Written by Frank Kumli (Basel Area Business & Innovation)

From drug discovery to the management of chronic illnesses, how are digital solutions transforming the healthcare industry? The widespread adoption of electronic health records has completely revolutionized the way health services store, process and disseminate patient data. Although a fairly primitive use of technology by today’s standards, this early effort of digitalization in the healthcare sector demonstrates the power of using healthtech to improve patient services. Things have come a long way since then; the added strain of the COVID-19 pandemic served to accelerate the adoption of new technologies that remove patient care bottlenecks and provide faster, deeper and more...

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