Many health systems around the world are failing patients. From Dhaka to Nairobi to Detroit, our health systems were primarily built to provide acute care and designed to serve institutions – government, hospitals, insurers – not patients or caregivers. Every attempt to digitize them, meanwhile hits the same wall: a misaligned and unsustainable architecture – effective at emergencies, but ill-suited for long-term health.

More money, more technology, including AI, will not fix a flawed system. The problem isn’t tools. It’s architecture.

Read the full piece by Ashwini Sharan, Medtronic LABS board member, and Abhishek Jain, Medtronic LABS strategic advisor, on WEF Forum Stories.