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"We are in an age of incredible innovation" in the health care industry, writes Lee Murray in a blog post about a meeting with a private equity investor.
Murray's mother in law suffered two brain aneurysms and had a complex eight-hour surgery in which a wire was inserted through the leg into the brain to close the hole.
Now, thanks to new technology, "minimally invasive" surgery could be as little as 25 minutes away, Murray writes.
"The level of precision and intricacy astounded me at the time and still does today.
However, the new technology means that this complex and incredibly expensive procedure could be replaced by a minimally invasive procedure as little as 25 minutes," he writes.
"The challenge will be convincing surgeons to adopt it," he adds.
"Healthcare is such an exciting sector and we are in an age of incredible innovation.
A CEO of a primary care group remarked to me this week that healthcare hasn't changed much since the 1920s and that technology, particularly digital technology, is simply a tool to enable the real innovation in processes to take place."
(Click for Murray's full post.)
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