Multiple healthcare systems around the world are struggling with offering high quality, accessible, affordable health care services to their citizens. Given the global recession, decreasing tax revenues, aging populations and the demand for expensive, advanced technologies, public and private payers and providers are looking for answers. One solution is to jumpstart and accelerate local biomedical and health innovation and entrepreneurship and thus create, in addition to new drugs and devices, new models and paradigms for non-face to face care using digital health technologies, care delivery, business process innovation and systems. Unfortunately, while many doctors have great ideas, are content and domain experts and are on the front lines perceiving market needs, few have the mindset or entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, abilities, networks or experience to get an idea to market.
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