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by Sarah Matt (Author), David Feinberg (Foreword by)
Concrete, hands-on strategies for making healthcare more accessible for everyone
The Borderless Healthcare Revolution: The Definitive Guide to Breaking Geographic Barriers Through Technology is your field guide to a future in which a clinic visit is never farther away than the nearest screen and a surgeon's skill can cross oceans in real time. Drawing on two decades at the intersection of medicine and technology. including years as a senior leader at Oracle's global health division, Dr Sarah Matt translates frontier-grade innovation into day-to-day practice for clinicians, health-system strategists, and policymakers who refuse to accept geography as destiny.
Inside you will find concrete playbooks rather than platitudes; every framework has been piloted in settings that range from Manhattan cath labs to Kenyan community clinics. You will also meet the patients and providers whose lived stories prove that digital transformation works only when it works for everyone.
What you will learn:
- The tech that already moves care without moving patients, telemedicine, remote surgery, ambient AI, and how adoption curves exploded after 2020, with more than three quarters of US hospitals now running telehealth programs
- Human-centered design tactics that translate pixels into trust, from inclusive language pivots to offline-first apps that respect bandwidth deserts
- A five-pillar access audit that flags physical, financial, cultural, digital, and trust barriers in any market, plus scorecards to track progress
- Strategy checklists forged during Dr Matt's tenure at Oracle for aligning payers, regulators, and vendors around sustainable reimbursement models
- Future-readiness briefs on robotics and mixed-reality training at a moment when the surgical robotics market is projected to triple by 2031
Front Jacket
Even as well-resourced medical professionals gain access to extraordinary new healthcare technologies that offer patients life-changing results, those same professionals continue to encounter familiar problems when they attempt to provide these services to patients in distant, underserved, or relatively inaccessible areas.
In The Borderless Healthcare Revolution: The Definitive Guide to Breaking Geographic Barriers Through Technology, Dr. Sarah Matt delivers a deeply informed and up-to-date roadmap of the borderless healthcare revolution transforming the way patients and practitioners interact with the medical industry. Dr. Matt walks you through the groundbreaking technologies enabling the delivery of healthcare with personal stories, real-world examples, and expert -analysis and interpretation informed by her decades of experience in the industry.
This book offers specific examples from telemedicine, remote surgery, and artificial intelligence that are expanding access to care across borders and regions and in areas that have long been underserved. You'll find evidence-based and compelling explanations of promising trends and technologies in healthcare delivery and how patients and providers can prepare for their arrival. You'll also discover practical frameworks and tools to help you identify barriers to care and implement effective solutions that expand access to lifesaving and life-changing healthcare.
Packed with practical insights and actionable strategies to help you implement digital health care technologies in the real world, The Borderless Healthcare Revolution is an essential read for medical and healthcare technology professionals looking for realistic, forward-looking solutions to many of the most pressing problems facing healthcare today.
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Praise for THE BORDERLESS HEALTHCARE REVOLUTION
"Dr. Matt provides an essential framework for grounding technology in the real world of patient care. The Borderless Healthcare Revolution is a comprehensive and inspiring how-to for reducing healthcare disparities everywhere."
--PETER BONIS, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Wolters Kluwer Health and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine
"Imagine a future where our healthcare experiences are intimate, personal, and accessible, yet powered by increasingly intelligent global data and expertise. Grounded in real human stories, Dr. Sarah Matt's book offers a practical blueprint to accelerate realizing this healthier future."
--STEPHANIE TRUNZO, CEO of MERGE, former GM of Oracle Health
"Dr. Matt delivers a timely and compelling blueprint for transforming healthcare access through technology. With clarity and urgency, The Borderless Healthcare Revolution challenges us to reimagine care delivery beyond traditional geographic and structural boundaries, offering bold, actionable solutions to close gaps and bring high-quality care to underserved communities. This is more than a book, it's a call to action."
--BIMBOLA F. AKINTADE, PhD, MBA, APRN, Dean and Professor at East Carolina University College of Nursing
"Technology is transforming healthcare and everyone from patients to providers, investors to board members, want to know what's coming next. Dr. Matt is on the leading edge of the tech revolution in healthcare and has seen firsthand how better patient outcomes are also better for the bottom line. Read this book to realize our new reality."
--JESSICA J. FEDERER, Former Chief Digital Officer at Bayer A.G., Investor, and Board Member
Author Biography
SARAH MATT, MD, MBA, is a surgeon turned health technology strategist, author, and speaker. She has held leadership roles at Oracle, Sovato, NextGen, and multiple health tech startups, bringing over two decades of experience at the intersection of medicine and innovation. Her work focuses on leveraging digital tools to expand access and reimagine healthcare delivery worldwide.
