Can Designers and Developers Save Healthcare?

Leslie Ziegler

Healthcare costs are rising, projected to be over 20% of GDP by 2021. As the system is forced to change, who will be the driving forces behind its transformation? Rock Health is a nonprofit foundation and an engine for social enterprise, fueling the next generation of health entrepreneurs through a startup accelerator, open-source research and public events. Leslie Ziegler, Rock Health’s chief evangelist, talks about the disruption that entrepreneurs, designers and developers are creating to provide new solutions in what has traditionally been a very challenging space for innovation.