The Mother Of Invention

"Necessity is the mother of invention..." This is an adage I've heard frequently throughout my life—starting with my grandmother when I spent summers on her farm. Who knew (not me, until recently) that the phrase was coined by Plato.

But this phrase developed a new meaning in the post-pandemic health care landscape. The pandemic accelerated, by decades, many changes in the health care field. And now that the Public Health Emergency has come to an end, executive teams will need to make some strategic decisions about innovation—in particular what new services or tech infrastructure to invest . . .