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Ameera Shah: Why is the healthcare space not disruptive enough?

Technology is not a challenge, but convincing doctors to change their ways of working is difficult

Ameera Shah, MD, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd
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Ameera Shah, MD, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd

Ameera Shah
Currently, healthcare is one more important industry everybody is fixated on – consumers want the best care and service providers want to maximise profits through innovation in technology and delivery. After lagging behind for almost five decades, this industry is energising and changing itself faster than any other vertical, becoming one of the largest industry globally. Every government, every economy is largely focused on improving their healthcare sector. 

The healthcare industry is India specifically is amenable to disruptive innovation because the technologies, business models, and potential value networks capable of driving that innovation are already in place. The healthcare sector is