The impact of automation on our health will also be felt through our own uptake of new personal health apps.
But McIntosh believes Australia is still moving much too slowly in encouraging the uptake of new safety technology.
Nesta's study focuses on the diffusion of specific innovations between GP practices – for example, the uptake of new drugs and IT innovations.
This was due to customers spending more on existing advertising products, increases in agency listing fees, and a healthy uptake of new display advertising products launched in December.
Anglo American argued that its lobbying role is to support the uptake of such mechanisms, saying: "We engage with governments to inform policy for the effective uptake of new technologies".
Meanwhile, internet entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox will be asked to report on ways to increase uptake of new digital health devices among patients who could benefit.
Sir Christopher O'Donnell, who recently led a government taskforce to speed the uptake of new, more advanced devices by the NHS, said that the market was expanding around the world because patients were becoming more educated about what was on offer.
And there is a huge amount we can learn from our own past and ability to engineer rapid change, whether the uptake of new energy sources and technologies, the building of transport infrastructures and cities, or new social contracts to guarantee the health, education, freedom and rights of populations.
Students reported their supervisors were competent in using ICT, sometimes initiating the uptake of new technologies.
However successful uptake of new services depends on consumers' willingness to access these.
"Managing retention while accelerating the uptake of new customers is a tough balancing act, and will only get tougher without these kinds of integrations in place," he said.
