Feature: 13 Healthcare IT Trends and Predictions for 2013
Commentary: Why Tech Entrepreneurs Will Transform Healthcare
The Future of Health and Wellness Conference held earlier this month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology highlighted the results of some of these collaborations. Collectively, they won't address the 30 percent of wasted healthcare spending—some $800 billion per year—that the Obama administration hopes healthcare reform can eliminate, but they do demonstrate progress in understanding how patients age, cope with stress, change our behavior and interpret the information that doctors give them.