Medical technology as a driver for innovative business models
Medical care is provided primarily by private and public institutions such as doctors, therapy centres, outpatient clinics and hospitals. The way is very traditional and has hardly changed in the last decades. The question is, is there room for innovation? Does medical care have to be innovative? Innovation plays an extremely important role in medicine, especially in the fight agains...
Elon Musk and the future of the brain-machine interface
Elon Musk has had a lot to offer over the past 25 years, including an early online bank, solar roof tiles, a tunnelling machine, an electric car, a reusable rocket, and even an electric car shot into space with a rocket. The entrepreneur recently caused another sensation in San Francisco with the launch of his Neuralink brain-machine interface. You can read what this innovative technolog...
Can Servitization heal the sick hospitals?
Hospitals also have to struggle with a shortage of skilled workers, rarely make a profit and have to master digitalisation through innovations in order to remain fit for the future. Many see closer cooperation with medical technology companies as a possible way out of this dilemma. They are trying to bind hospitals to themselves through servitization. According to a regular survey cond...
Why the glass patient in Austria is fragile
ELGA promises to provide doctors, hospitals and other health service providers with exactly the individual patient data they need at the touch of a button. This saves effort, improves treatment and can sometimes save lives - at least in theory. In practice, ELGA has so far proven to be a cumbersome tool that also carries one or two serious risks. Health data captured by cyberattacks, w...
