PALO ALTO, Calif. — Silicon Valley and the Bay Area have transformed commerce, technology, communications, and other fields, while also playing an outsized role in biomedical research. Can they find a formula to similarly disrupt and radicalize health care?
Part of the answer depends on public trust of tech giants. Part depends on the Food and Drug Administration, and how it might regulate data-driven products, such as artificial intelligence diagnostic tools that are becoming central to medical practice and drug development.
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If you want a health sector desperately in need of disruption and innovation, try dentistry. The profession is rooted in conflicts of interest with its professional association also having commercial and trade roles, defending the use of dated and dangerous products on which it held patents, adding a gag order to its code of ethics, keeping its practice, insurance and records wholly separate from health care in the U.S., fighting the introduction of mid level providers, etc.