We are overestimate our achievements as humans in innovation, especially in the healthcare industry.
Please reflect what are the real jump innovations in the healthcare, which influenced positively the mean life expectation of the human population.
My list that added years to life: public sanitation (toilets, closed sewers), water purification, and getting horses off the streets and the tending of farm animals out of people's homes (removed their excrement). These were jump innovations in how we solved a problem of general systems impact: such as better use of information in understanding vectors of disease, and organisational models to turn these into utilities of general benefit. Not everyone in the world has these benefits. Tomorrow, looking back, I suspect we'll say personalised/precision medicine as this will have enabled us to "fix" dysfunction in biological/physical/living systems. This is not the same thing as the current treatment paradigm.
important improvements (jump innovations) in healthcare which substantially influenced the median life expectation of the human population are water access and public sanitation.
If you refer to health technology a lot of these help the life expentancy like cardiovascular stent, HIV drugs, Imatinib for leukemia. Of course none of these are jump innovation if you look at all figure.
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