Roadmap to Healthcare Innovation

This global playbook for reinventing healthcare brings together over 100 experts from across all continents to transition systems from traditional „sick care“ toward prevention-driven, data-enabled, and patient-centric models. Across four comprehensive parts, the book maps global megatrends and regional challenges—spanning the US, Europe, MENA, and beyond—while providing concrete tools such as disease-pathway frameworks, MR-enabled prototyping, and policy innovation. By presenting best-practice co-creation cases and guidance on KPIs, investment strategies, and emerging technologies like AI and digital twins, it serves as a practical toolbox for biomedical engineers and health innovators. Ultimately, it empowers readers to move beyond incremental technology toward value-driven innovation, helping them transform unmet needs into validated, scalable ventures that democratize healthcare access worldwide.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Healtcare Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
3. Tools, Methods, Strategies, and Infrastructures to Accelerate Innovation
4. Best Practice Examples and Sharing on Health Innovation Co-Creation
5. Future Innovation Process, Transformation and Entrepreneurship

The Editors

Sultan Haider is a Principal Key Expert at Siemens Healthineers and the founder of Innovation Think Tank, leading co-creation programs that connect MedTech, providers, academia, and policymakers in more than a dozen countries. He has filed over 465 inventions and holds multiple professorships worldwide.

Michael Friebe , Founding Director of the CIBE Center for Innovation, Business Development & Entrepreneurship at FOM University of Applied Sciences, is a serial MedTech innovator, investor, and academic in imaging and interventional technologies, focusing on translational research, frugal innovation, and entrepreneurship in healthcare.