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Health and life sciences

Scaling intelligent health in constrained systems

Health and life sciences organizations face a collision of pressures: rising costs, clinician shortages and aging populations, all while R&D teams race to accelerate pipelines without compromising safety. Legacy infrastructure, capacity constraints, and transformation fatigue keep ambition from becoming impact.

Yet the opportunity is real. Patients are more open than ever to digital care. Payers are accelerating the shift to outcome-based models. And AI, on stable foundations, can genuinely relieve the constraints holding the industry back.

To ensure their transformation is successful, health and life sciences organizations must align brand, experience, and technology as one system. AREA 17 helps you make that happen.

Read our full Health and life sciences market insights report here.

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  • Mariel Schoen
    Communications Design Manager, Wyss Institute

  • Maro Gartside
    Directrice du développement des produits, New England Journal of Medicine

  • Nikhil Mitter
    Director of Experience Design, Humanly

Health and life sciences index

  • Latent Labs

    Since 2025
  • Elevating patient care with AI

    Since 2023
  • Advancing brain research through open science

    2022–2024
  • System-level change through nature-centric design

    2022–2024
  • Nanodiamond Biotechnologies

    2023
  • The Lancet

    2021–2022
  • Elsevier

    2020
  • TNBC Foundation

    2019
  • A new kind of patient experience

    2018
  • Eurac Research

    2012–2017
  • Human Grid

    2013