Six Assertions on Knowing the Unknowable Future of Healthcare

BY JOE FLOWER Some things never change. Joe Flower is one of those things. Pay attention. Joe was the keynote speaker at Health 2.0 Silicon Valley earlier this month. We’re excited to feature the text of his remarks as a post on the blog today.  If you have questions for Joe, you can leave them the comment section. You’ll find a link to a complimentary copy of his report Healthcare 2027: at the end of this post. You should absolutely download and read it. And take notes. The future. The Future of healthcare. 
Here are the seven words at the core. If you take nothing else away from this, take these: Everything changes. Everything is connected. Pay attention. — Jane Hirshfield  We are gathered here on holy ground, in Silicon Valley, the home of the startup, the temple of everything new, of the Brave New World. And healthcare? Healthcare is changing — consolidation, new technologies, political chaos, a vast and growing IT overburden, shifting rules, ever-rising costs, new solutions, business model experiments. So when I say, “The Future of Healthcare,”
what are the pictures in your head? Catastrophic system failure? The dawn of a bright new day of better, stronger, cheaper healthcare for everyone, led by tech? Do we have all the confidence of a little girl screaming down a slide? Do we just say in denial about the future and end up in a kind of chaotic muddling along? In this century business sectors crash, transform, and re-emerge constantly. Most m...
Source: The Health Care Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Uncategorized Futurism Joe Flower Source Type: blogs