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Accelerating Innovation and Technological Transformation on a National Scale
1Chief Transformation, Innovation and AI Officer, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel, Co-Chairman, Future of Health, Boston, MA.
Healthcarepapers
|January 28, 2026
Summary
Developed countries face health system challenges, but innovation adoption is slow. Embedding innovation and leveraging digital technologies like AI are crucial for sustainable, generative healthcare systems.
Area of Science:
- Health Services Research
- Healthcare Management
- Health Informatics
Background:
- Developed nations grapple with escalating healthcare costs, workforce shortages, safety issues, and inequities.
- Progress in transforming health systems has been slow and fragmented, exemplified by unfulfilled recommendations from Canada's healthcare innovation report.
- The COVID-19 pandemic and financial constraints have intensified existing system pressures.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze the slow adoption of healthcare innovation in developed countries.
- To highlight the potential of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), in redesigning healthcare delivery.
- To advocate for embedding innovation into the core mission of health systems for sustainability and economic development.
Main Methods:
- Commentary based on analysis of the Canadian healthcare system's experience.
- Review of challenges in health system transformation and innovation adoption.
- Exploration of the role of digital technologies and AI in healthcare.
Main Results:
- Key innovation recommendations remain unfulfilled a decade after their proposal.
- Digital technology adoption in healthcare is patchy and uncoordinated.
- Significant opportunities exist to redesign care delivery through AI and other digital tools.
Conclusions:
- Health systems must integrate innovation as a core mission, linking it with economic development.
- Clinician- and patient-driven solutions, commercialization, and procurement reform are vital.
- Sustained national strategies are necessary to ensure healthcare is both sustainable and socially generative.
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