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Digital health innovators embrace the challenge
If we can send messages to Commander Chris Hatfield in space, book travel, and rekindle decades-old friendships at the click of a button, then surely Canadians deserve—and are up for the challenge of—achieving similar gains in health care.
OTTAWA—“There’s a way to do it better—find it,” said Thomas Edison decades ago. A similar motivation drove the Canadians who developed insulin, cardiac pacemakers, electric wheelchairs and prosthetic hands. These and other health innovations have since improved the lives of an untold number of patients from around the globe. Indeed, we can be proud of the trails Canadians have blazed in health care, seeing an opportunity to make things better and thereby transform the patient experience.
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Digital health innovators embrace the challenge
If we can send messages to Commander Chris Hatfield in space, book travel, and rekindle decades-old friendships at the click of a button, then surely Canadians deserve—and are up for the challenge of—achieving similar gains in health care.
OTTAWA—“There’s a way to do it better—find it,” said Thomas Edison decades ago. A similar motivation drove the Canadians who developed insulin, cardiac pacemakers, electric wheelchairs and prosthetic hands. These and other health innovations have since improved the lives of an untold number of patients from around the globe. Indeed, we can be proud of the trails Canadians have blazed in health care, seeing an opportunity to make things better and thereby transform the patient experience.
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