The Health Care Technology Ecosystem: Terminology – Part 1
For the past two years I have served as a mentor at MATTER, a health care technology incubator and accelerator in Chicago. MATTER is incubating 200 start-ups, companies that offer medical devices, pharmaceutical and diagnostic solutions, big data analytics, virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence (including voice activated), and patient education solutions, along with health, wellness, and care coordination. I noticed that many of these start-ups have only physicians on their advisory boards, even when the specific issue requires more of a nursing care solution (e.g., care coordination, patient education).