suggest a twenty-five percent drop in late-stage treatment costs—savings the insurer can share back to employers. TECHNOLOGY THAT PAYS FOR ITSELF King admits the Caribbean’s capital budgets often stall big-bang technology upgrades, so he is negotiating subscription-based deals—turning ultrasound machines, cloud analytics and even patient monitors into “pay-per-use” services that stay evergreen. “We can’t buy our way to world-class care in one cheque,” he argues. “But we can rent the innovation cycle—stay current, spread the cost, and prove ROI every quarter.” A PERSONAL DRIVER The crusade is more than professional. King’s own prostate-cancer journey exposed the shortage of minimally invasive options, robotic or proton radiant treatment, in local hospitals. Watching nurses’ hand-write vitals every hour convinced him that electronic vital history, with predictive monitoring— commonplace in the U.S. and Singapore—belongs high on the basic agenda. Premier hospitals of the Caribbean face an 4 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 12, ISSUE 06
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