The Next Thing

In the U.S., there is lots of investment in health care innovation—in new pharmaceuticals, new technologies, new service delivery models, and more.;The innovation is fueled by significant investments by government, by publicly traded companies, and by venture capital/private equity firms (see Private Equity Investment In Health Care Technology Rises 22% In Q1 2025 and HHS Seeks To Accelerate AI Use For Health Care).

But the actual scaling and adoption of those innovations across the health system is a slow go. There is a much-noted 17-year lag in innovation adoption in health care—meaning . . .