THE private healthcare businesses are becoming less capital-intensive. While they needed heavy investments typically into the real estate space and the building of their facilities in the past, the advent of digital healthcare services is changing that to some extent.
Digital healthcare has been pushed into the forefront especially with the Covid-19 pandemic, where patient safety becomes a priority.The broad scope of digital health includes categories such as mobile health, health information technology, wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, and personalised medicine. Industry players say this trend could lead to lower costs as investments become less capital intensive.