First look: Healthcare breakthroughs

As the landscape shifts, we highlight the next wave of 14 high-impact innovations likely to disrupt healthcare as we know it.

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Vanessa Cook

October 2024

Key takeaways

  • The speed at which emerging technologies in healthcare will become realities is staggering. Recently, at the World Medical Innovation Forum, clinical experts, industry leaders and venture investors explored healthcare's medical, operational, and economic challenges in an effort to ensure that patients, providers, and healthcare organizations benefit as the healthcare landscape evolves.
  • This year's event brought together 14 Harvard-affiliated Mass General Brigham clinicians and researchers to share "First Look" presentations highlighting their discoveries and insights on the next wave of breakthroughs in healthcare.
  • With topics ranging from Alzheimer's Disease and counteracting age-related cognitive decline, to the promise of immunotherapy for brain cancer, experts shared high-impact technologies likely to disrupt healthcare in the coming months and years.

Read our full analysis for a more in-depth look at these trends.

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