Healthcare, growing to $10 Trillion US globally, lags behind nearly 80% of other industries in innovative technology adoption, and in fact is at the bottom five across industries.
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Healthcare, growing to $10 Trillion US globally, lags behind nearly 80% of other industries in innovative technology adoption, and in fact is at the bottom five across industries. However this is about to change in the next three years. From the WEF Future of Jobs Report, by 2022, adoption forecasts include: 87% big data, 87% biotech, 80% (a form of
This became a focused area of discussion at the W2O hosted session in March at SxSW “EQ in the ER: Building Empathy Through XR” which is now available on video and follow-up podcast . Anita Bose , Chief Business Development Officer, W2O Group moderated a highly interactive dialogue with Rasu Shrestha MD MBA Chief Strategy Officer and EVP Atrium Health and myself. We explored: what are the opportunities, challenges, investments, frontier examples and issues in healthcare such as ethics, genetic editing, big data, extended reality,
Dr. Shrestha provided a multi-faceted and nuanced discussion on how enabling technology can be in providing enhanced caring and empathy (deep EQ / emotional quotient) in healthcare with specific examples from his considerable insights in the medical system. This addressed the title about EQ in the ER: Building Empathy Through XR. EQ meaning emotional quotient and ER equating to the emergency room however in all contexts during the SXSW session.
Getting into more specifics. XR (extended reality) is the umbrella term for Virtual Reality (
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