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Many questions that are often lumped into a broad category of “innovation” can be more rigorously thought about as questions of endogenous technological change. How do a society’s problem-solving abilities change over time? What is the optimal design of institutions to support step function technological changes?

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The general idea of a “rule,” can be read to encompass a wide-range of things including statutes, regulations, common law, guidelines, contracts, norms, corporate policies, and unspoken practices. At the intersection of health, human security, and technology, each of these rule categories applies, and each has tangible effect on outcomes.

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Design is an essential layer in most endeavors that aim to improve health and human security, though far too often there is a failure to plan for, finance, and deploy design solutions.

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The advent of new technologies often outstrips our existing ethical and equity frameworks.  Society is then forced to revisit basic normative issues such as the boundaries of privacy, the role of intellectual property, and even the definition of humanity. Digitalis Research is particularly interested in how health is effected as a basic human right.

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