Farmers are under pressure to grow more food while minimizing their environmental impact. Smart ag has emerged as one of the most valuable tools to enable this.

Design thinking has become a guiding principle for new product breakthroughs in drug delivery, diagnostic and MedTech device innovations by helping to inform product performance based on patients’ lifestyles, abilities and preferences. In a human-centered design blog authored by my Phillips-Medisize colleague Brett Landrum, he stressed the critical need for form to follow function in improving patient compliance and medical outcomes.

Medicine has relied on mechanical devices to help treat patients for decades. These devices have ranged in complexity from stents and shunts to dialysis machines and ventilators. As we settle into this age of data, the pressure to connect, control, instrument and analyze the operation of such devices and their impact on health has grown exponentially. After all, at a time when my watch can share heart rate and oxygen saturation, surely any physician-prescribed monitoring device should be able to provide relevant medical insight too?