Keynote: Singularity
Many individuals and organizations can integrate as one—a singularity. Attaining singularity may be the greatest challenge of our time. But its potential is vast. In a singularity, we tap our collective intelligence to crack tough problems. Groups coordinate work across collaborative platforms and cross the chasms created by geographic separation. Organizations that are not part of the same system collaborate to do together what none could do alone. Anything can happen anywhere as organizations intertwine with more partners in fluid combinations.
Keynote: Metamorphosis
Something new is emerging. Catch its outline and you see something so profoundly different as to be almost unrecognizable. This new creature is the future form of healthcare. It arises only partly because of legislation and political mandate. The greater forces are powerful global shifts, technological breakthroughs, economic changes, and cultural trends. These usher in an era of precision medicine, new services, intertwined organizations, market upheavals, cheap and smart competitors, and advances in human enhancement. This is a time of radical deconstruction and rebirth.
Keynote: Creating Your Preferred Future
View your organization's preferred future as a picture you create and then step into. The future is something you create. It is a work of art and imagination. Futuring permits your organization to invent its own destiny.
Keynote: Continuum—Rethinking Everything
As we are able to anticipate serious clinical events before they occur, we rethink when to intervene. As big and expensive medical devices become portable or even implantable, we also rethink where to intervene. Ultimately we even rethink who should intervene and build new clinical teams with different people. In the new continuum of care, homes become extensions of hospitals, and smart phones connect patients and providers. Organizations win in new ways economically and collaborate across geography. The challenge is daunting, but the potential is compelling. It's time to rethink everything.
Keynote: Designing for a Healthy Future
It is better to design out disease than treat it. Design is the ultimate stage of human evolution. Genetic design and habitat design are the two primary design initiatives that will decrease morbidity and evoke health potentials in our human population. The goal is simple - to achieve the highest level of health and wellbeing attainable in every community.
Keynote: Inventing How We Age
Aging is one of the largest growth fields of the future--the area where imagination, innovation, and investment intersect. Imagine what happens as health integrates with housing to create therapeutic villages, healthy living communities, spadominiums, smart habitats, and virtual villages. Anticipate the potential arising from the hundreds of companies developing assistive devices that extend and restore body function. Think about the way simple choices can combine with the science of longevity to shift how long and how well we live. Explore the movement toward meaning and peak contribution in later life. Look at the innovations already present and anticipate what is just ahead.
Keynote: Evolving for the Future Together
Most organizations learned to survive using an old-style ethic of individualism and domination. When confronting something different or threatening, they attempt to conquer or eliminate it. And every encounter is a contest. Although much of the world is still shaped by this approach, something profoundly new is also occurring. This new thing is often called a business ecosystem. Here everyone's fates are intertwined--the prosperity or demise of one impacts all. Individual entities learn to work with each other more intentionally. Although they may compete, they also collaborate and co-evolve. In the future, no one thrives alone.
What is Futurism?
Futurism is the art of both predicting and creating the future. Prediction is the beginning point. Many trends are visible as waves of momentum. But these waves do not impact all places at the same time. What is yet to sweep healthcare or one organization often already exists somewhere else. A futurist looks in different places--on the margins and edges.
Keynote: Designing for a Healthy Future
Leland R. Kaiser
It is better to design out disease than treat it. Design is the ultimate stage of human evolution.
Genetic design and habitat design are the two primary design initiatives that will decrease morbidity and evoke health potentials in our human population.
The goal is simple—to achieve the highest level of health and wellbeing attainable in every community.
A health revolution is in the making
Healthcare providers will soon do more than just treat sick people. They will improve population health status.
We will see a merger of private health and public health efforts in the United States.
Our future is not fixed. It may be invented or prevented. What we can imagine, we can create. It is time to increase the scope of our imagination.
To achieve a better design for health, we must adopt a futures design mindset. This means going upstream to detect and ameliorate the early precursors of disease.
Health is an outcome achieved when everything else is working in a person's life. It is an optimal transaction of the person and the environment.
The design of healthy human environments is called habitat design. Healthy environments create healthy people.
Comprehensive environmental design includes physical, social, cultural, economic, political, domestic, vocational and spiritual dimensions. We already have criteria for each design dimension.
A comprehensive design for health is multidisciplinary. We must bring these disciplines together in an overall community design effort.
The design should be tested in demonstration communities located in the United States.
Lowered morbidity is the only long-term strategy that is going to significantly reduce healthcare costs.