Hurst: Consumer expectations drive the technology shift in healthcare
Blair Hurst · Healthcare Is a Bucket Full of Holes — Here's What Falls Through · Mar 20, 2021 · at 5:00
Blair Hurst, founder of Digital Health Review, discusses structural changes in health tech and the industry's pivot toward preventative wellness.
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“Increased engagement is the catalyst to a lot of the technology shift that we're seeing in healthcare because patients or consumers, or which people are normally called in every other industry, are demanding certain quality of healthcare and certain aspects of healthcare that they're getting in every other field they're experiencing as a consumer.”
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