Healthcare’s future may be defined less by new tools and more by how wisely we use the data already at our fingertips. Rajan Kohli argues that while healthcare generates nearly 30% of the world’s data, most of it never informs patient care. The real challenge is utilization, not collection.
He envisions a system built on “Healthcare Live”—real-time data exchange, adaptive workflows, and machine reasoning—that can move care beyond episodic visits to continuous, proactive intervention. Examples like Abbott’s Libre glucose monitors feeding data straight into medical records show how close this future is.
But Kohli cautions against simply “digitizing old problems.” Without rethinking workflows, incentives, and trust, healthcare risks creating high-tech replicas of outdated systems. His prescription: build domain-specific solutions (not generic AI), put trust and transparency at the center, and align incentives around outcomes, not volume.