HealthTech Needs Data Science – Welcome to the Pivigo Blog

HealthTech presents a huge opportunity, but how can businesses leverage these advantages, and how can Data Science help? The healthcare industry is huge and in turn, the size of the Health Tech industry is significantly larger than in other fields. In the USA alone, the healthcare market is more than 17% of GDP. A recent article published by TechCrunch highlights the vulnerabilities in the industry based on its consistent and rapid expansion: "the healthcare market represents $3 trillion, almost 20 percent, of the U.S. economy. This market also is plagued by a level of gross inefficiency and under-performance largely unseen in any other industries in our post-internet world".