What the healthcare ruling means for tech

Chief Justice John Roberts might be a health care technology innovator’s best friend. Why? The Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision to uphold President Obama’s signature piece of health care legislation, the Affordable Care Act, means that radical changes are coming for the $2.6 trillion industry.

By forcing care providers and payers to share risk and accountability, the law incentivizes all parties to focus preventive care and to share the reams of data they generate. That should result in both a better standard of care -- and an opportunity for companies that can best harness that data. That was one of the conclusions of a panel on The Future of Medicine at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen.