Daniel Mahony, manager of the Polar Capital Global Healthcare Growth and Income trust, looks at how digital healthcare companies are driving change in the sector.
The 'democratisation of healthcare' is underway as the amount of data and information that can be used to help individuals make better-informed decisions continues to increase. Technology that was until recently only available to professionals, often in hospitals, can now be cheaply put in the hands of the consumer. This marks a major shift away from a 'paternalistic' healthcare system, built around medical professionals, to one that is centred on the needs of the patient. Polar Capital's Mahony: Healthcare will see ‘once-in-a-lifetime' structural shift In a digital health world, ...
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