Why Focus on Health Care Now?
• If we were to condense the relatively short 200,000-year history of homo sapiens into a single year, then most of the medical progress would have occurred in the past four hours.
• We are witnessing an unprecedented level of convergence among various fields of science and technology, with innovation in the medical field happening faster than ever.
• Ageing demographics augur for more investment in Health Care: The US is currently on course for one-fifth of their population to enter the 65 years+ bracket by the end of this decade.
• Costs of genome sequencing have fallen from over $2 billion in 2003 to around $1,000 today.
