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Health Technology is Weird - by Ben Reinhardt

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Why it's hard to generalize lessons from the world of therapeutics

Serious people often try to draw lessons from the quest for better therapeutics or health technology for research more generally. From how to fund and commercialize technologies to the value of patents to self-sustaining institutional structures. This is a mistake! It’s easy to forget, but technology aiming to improve human health has a laundry list of different characteristics that make it an entirely different beast from other technologies. Some throat clearing: I’m going to play a bit fast and loose with the terms “health technology,” “therapeutics,” and “drugs.” There are obvious…

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