Five years ago—recognizing that the shift to value-based, personalized health care would have a profound and transformational impact on the industry—we launched ConvergeHEALTH. Our goal was to team up with leading health care institutions, technology companies, life sciences innovators, and patient advocacy groups to create new platforms and solutions to support this transformation for the benefit of patients.
Advances in science, the digitization of health, and insights from the resulting real-world data made it possible to develop this new entity. Our five-year journey has given us the opportunity to work with many talented individuals and organizations to accomplish a common goal: Determine how technology can be used to improve the health of patients and to benefit society. As we look forward to the next five years, I wanted to share five observations that we believe will continue to drive us toward a value-based and personalized health care model: