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Interesting to see governments in various parts of the world actively supporting innovation – more specifically, Open Innovation. General Electric has just announced it participation as a founding member of a new Japanese initiative to significantly further innovation in that country in the areas of healthcare, clean energy and the environment. Specifically, the new venture is based on Open Innovation. A total of $9.5 billion will be available as assets of the fund. Read more.
Governments and private entities around the globs have long been struggling to keep healthcare delivery in step with the advances in technology that have occurred over the past years. Most visionaries realize that technology and connectedness are absolutely vital if we are to take healthcare delivery out of the dark ages into the 21st century. Recently the Obama administration has announced very significant funding for the healthcare industry, focussing specifically on the application of technology and the use of online medical records. Companies such as Microsoft and Google are leading the charge in the personal medical record race.
The Economist has just published a 14-page special on innovation, healthcare and technology. Makes for excellent reading. It’s tremendous that at least there is such a focus on how technology and innovation can be used to radically improve the delivery of services to an area that is so important to each of us – our health.
