Healthcare
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Technology holds key to future health
Combine an aging and growing population with an acute shortage of health care workers and it is clear that the world is about to face a health crisis of dramatic proportions.
Can we afford to live forever?
This ageing of the population is already exerting extreme pressure on health care systems around the world. In response, the medical sector is turning to digital technologies to reduce costs and re-think the way that health care is provided.
Digital innovation reshapes healthcare technology
Connected health devices synchronize information with apps in real time, empowering consumers to take care of their own health and manage any existing conditions.
Technology revolution changes face of healthcare
Earlier and more effective diagnosis and treatment, a closer relationship between care providers and patients, and payments based on value rather than volume are all beginning to transform the world of healthcare.
Connecting physicians to patients
After working around the world for Royal Philips from 1986 to 2004, before leaving to head up a spin-off company and his own consultancy firm, Frans van Houten returned to become CEO in 2011.
Personalizing prevention is the best cure
In the future, we not only have to find better ways to share the planet among more of us, but also have to deal with the fact that most of us will be on it longer.
GE: Providing solutions at every Olympic Games
The IOC's 2016 Olympic Marketing Fact File reveals that revenue from The Olympic Partners (TOP), sponsors and supporters of the Games reached nearly $2.79 billion in 2009-12.