What ' s Next for Healthcare?

Today I had the honor of keynoting at a major announcement from Apple, Aetna and CVS/Caremark.  I ' d summarize the message as " Digital Health has arrived and is now mainstream, fully embraced by the major stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem. "Here ' s the upshot.The history of healthcare and payment has been risk pool based and focused on paying for sickness.The future belongs to wellness, personalization, and a team-based approach to keeping you healthy in your home. The announcement of Aetna Attain, a collaboration of Aetna, CVS/Caremark, and Apple, is based on a few key ideas:1.  Personalization is essentialAsking everyone to walk 10,000 steps a day is unrealistic.  Some should walk 5000 and some should walk 20,000.   Performance goals should be set based on past performance, current health state, and patients like you.2.  Privacy is foundationalManaging an ecosystem of apps, interfaces, and cloud services requires that privacy is designed in from the ground up.  Everything around Attain is based on opt-in, patient controlled privacy preferences, de-identification, continuous authentication (how are you holding your phone now), and aggregation of information.3.  Machine learning based on patients like you is empoweringRandomized controlled trials are great but impossible to personalize.  Ideally, the past data from millions of patients like you will inform your wellness strategies for the future.4.&nbs...
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