Health Care Enters the Exponential Era

Health care may be on the cusp of a major transformation as IT leaders prepare for the increased adoption of disruptive technology capabilities. The health care industry has hardly been an early adopter of technology-enabled transformation, having been slower to embrace the emerging systems and tools that have remade other industry sectors. However, that is beginning to change. Consider how the development and implementation of exponentially improving technologies have revolutionized genomics. In 1999, scientists spent five months and approximately $300 million generating the first-draft sequence of a human genome.