moving telehealth from the future to the present
TRANSCRIPT
Thinking in the Future Tense
moving telehealth from the future to the present
what is your image of the future?
the future creates the present…
not a mystery
6 forces drive TH to the present
• income gap economics• health care requires it• age wave need and digital
natives lead• tech acceleration• quantized-self health revolution• 4-P medic ine
debt drag &income gap economics
6000 years American experiment
National Institute for Healthcare Reform, via NYT, Mar. 18, 2012
• Diagnostics: “pauciparameter”• Therapy— still reactive• Prevention -- still a minor role• Impersonal – generic answers
medicine today
health care provider of the future?
•digital natives
•systems biologists
•upstream specialists
•pre-disease counselors
•life style specialists
•quick change artists
•gerontologists
traditionals now 75+
old young diverse
boomers now 56-74
millennials now 20-39
generation X now 40-55
post millennial now 1-19
2020
technology acceleration
connectivity | convergence | 3D
nanotechnology | biotech
super intelligent assistance
Survey of 3700 physicians globallyForbes, Jan. 26, 2012 - Why you may want your next exam via computer
the quantized-self health revolution
Courtesy Leroy Hood: Institute for Systems Biology
future medicine via systems biology
•PREDICTIVE•probabilistic health history-‐-‐DNA sequence•biannual multi-‐parameter blood measurements
•PREVENTIVE •design of preventive measures via systems approaches
•PERSONALIZED •unique human variation mandates individual treatment
•PARTICIPATORY•patient enlists doctor as partner
2 forces keep TH in the future
• political restrictions• achieving consistency -
trust - sustainability
FuTURIST•co
3 waves to rideto get from the future to the present...
• digital native practitioners• 4-P medicine & Quantized-
self health revolution• leverage urbanization
the future is not something that just happens to us
the future is something we do
thank you for your timefor more information
www.futurist.com
www.twitter.com/glenhiemstra
www.facebook/glenhiemstra