In this Gigaom article, Om Malik argues against hyperbolic claims that 2013 was a lost year for technology by pointing to his reliance as a Patient on mHealth.
It amazes me that so few executives in the $300 Billion pa Pharma and $200 Billion pa Medical Device industries realise (or are doing anything about the fact) that their products will have converged to mobile before this decade is over especially when it’s so obvious that for many Patients (like Om) the prescribed medications and the mobile experience have already blurred…
Everything in life that is in some way touched by digital technology is on an exponential curve – 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, … looks like nothing is happing only 30 steps further we have reached in billion and some CEOs in the healthcare domain will wake up (after they are out of business).
Time to wake up now – h/t Vivek Wadhwa for sharing on Twitter, https://twitter.com/wadhwa/status/416638767378604033