As an expert on healthcare innovation, I’m often asked to predict how technology will change healthcare in the future. I don’t have a crystal ball – but luckily, I don’t need one. Already there are plenty of indications that we’re moving towards a future where prevention, rather than treatment, will dominate our approach to healthcare.

You’ve probably heard talk about ‘the great resignation’ happening in many industries across the world, with large numbers of people reassessing their work and priorities in the wake of COVID lockdowns and leaving their jobs in record numbers. I see something quite different happening in healthcare, and it started well before the pandemic. I call it ‘the great reinvention’.

We’re all acutely aware of the negative aspects of COVID, but what often gets overlooked are the positive outcomes of this pandemic, the ‘silver linings’.