Author: Chris Eccles

New technological advances to meet key healthcare needs are a crucial element driving the performance profile of the healthcare sector.

Many years ago, my 85-year-old mother and 90-year-old father were at dinner with my wife and I. When the meal was over, the time arrived to decide whether to have dessert. Mom looked down at her pudgy self and declared, as she had every night for the previous seven decades, that she needed to begin watching what she was eating in order to lose weight. As a professor of public health, you might expect my first reaction would have been to agree with her. Decades ago, yes, but at her age my reaction was the exact opposite. I said Mom,…