Moving Telehealth from the future to the present
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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
• 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
Survey of 3700 physicians globallyForbes, Jan. 26, 2012 - Why you may want your next exam via computer
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
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