There are large amounts of capital flowing into areas such as digital healthcare and other services or products that claim to have the next big disruptive approach or innovation to solve important problems in healthcare. Based on the dollars flowing and the large return expectations that accompany this type of investment herd behavior, one would think we were close to big breakthroughs.

The author of this particular article, Lucienne Ide, CEO of Rimidi, discusses this subject honestly and effectively:

https://vilcap.com/2017/05/30/diagnosis-healthcare-innovation-much-short-term-thinking/

From Lynn Marie DePippo February 4, 2026

Sorry about the link no longer working. However, you can get this gist my comment was sarcastic. Manic investor and business flows do not often result real breakthroughs in systemic value creation. I was one of the first sell side analysts to ever write on digital healthcare. It was in 1994. I wrote one of the first sell side research reports on the subject (maybe one of the first three sell side analysts). If you go back and look at what I wrote back then, you might be suprised to find not much has changed. I do suspect in the near future it will. It is not just the advances in AI. It is the way integrated, diverse teams and systemic, collaborative use of AI can finally address the true nature of health problems. It is also much easier to have difficult conversations about the toxicity in agriculture, food and water. Any real change in collective health and well being requires systemic analyses of all the factors getting in the way, including environmental pollution and toxicity.