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Harvard Business School students are unhappy about their technology business education and HBS is losing market share to MIT and Stanford. Compared with MIT and Stanford, “we have, in a sense, less tech in the air,” says the business school’s dean, Nitin Nohria, though he points out that HBS sends many graduates to leading tech companies each year.

Medical schools are facing the same challenge, although few seem aware of it or interested in addressing it. Even though medical school applications are still high, plateauing last year after a record the year before

, it is only a matter of time before top-tier students choose one or the other based on the quality of digital health education medical schools offer.

Hospitals that now employ 60-70% of the US physician workforce have the same problem. A recent survey showed that 80% of doctors felt they had little or no say in the technology their administrators chose. Many are struggling with how to use artificial intelligence in clinical care and doctors are concerned about the liability using it as well as patient security and confidentiality. The gaps between doctors and administrators are widening.