Frans van Houten Quotes

Biotech research is incredibly important for health-care innovation.

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.

From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care.

Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on.

We are a wealthy country. We also are the global engine of innovation in health care, whether it's the pharmaceutical industry or the creation of medical devices.

To become the global leader in HealthTech and shape the future of the industry, we will combine our vibrant Healthcare and Consumer Lifestyle businesses into one company.

I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.

Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.

To create exponential growth in health care, we need to put tremendous resources and focus behind the best human minds working in this field.

I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.

Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface.

Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the most low-resource settings. Dedication and innovation are transforming health care worldwide.

To me, part of the magic of this era is that the very same innovations, discoveries, and technologies that are allowing us to live longer, healthier lives are also creating a healthier economy.

Technological innovations [in public health] that come from basic science have to be transformed from discovery to delivery, and that gap is huge.

The only way to get health care abundance is to use technology.

The government spends $30 Billion a year on basic health research and the results have been fantastic for the country and the world.

I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their daily lives.

If Facebook owns social, if LinkedIn owns business, who owns your health?

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Despite heated political debates on the future of our health care system, there is bipartisan agreement that health IT can be a powerful tool to transform and modernize the delivery of health care in our country. Health IT is about helping patients and their loved ones.

Nowhere is the power of the Internet for improving people's lives more evident than in health care.

When I became CEO, I was really worried that we were in commoditized segments that were mature and no longer growing. So we made a radical pivot into health technology because that is one of the world's unmet needs.

I would argue that the U.S. health care system is broken for reasons other than innovation.

The truth is that the greatest innovations in health-care delivery haven't come from federally contrived oligopolies or enormous hospital chains. Novel concepts - whether practice-management companies, home health care or the first for-profit HMO - almost always have come from entrepreneurial firms, often backed by venture capital.

I'll go round the world looking for the best technology that can save lives and improve the lives of clinicians too. We need to be embracing it.