This is a legacy site. Why am I republishing it? Because I keep getting more requests and queries this year, as the Trump Administration continues its multi-pronged assault on healthcare, cutting grants for medical research, cutting funding for rural hospitals and hospital emergency care, cutting Medicare and Medicaid resources, and many other ways. People are very concerned and need help finding the way forward for their organization, their part of the industry, their region. I can help. Contact me:
Healthcare is complex. Simple solutions are useless. Any simple picture of the future is a lie. Simple techno-optimism or innovationist neophilia get us nowhere.
I now have a framework for helping you and your audiences get to the meat of the challenges you face.
Simple futurism is entertainment. It points at each shiny thing—AI, contractual blockchain, virtual worlds, augmented reality, cell transformation, haptic rebuilds—and says, “Wow! Look at this.” It’s a Jetsons way of looking at the future, as real as using the Flintstones as a guide to the past.
Thinking about the future is a complex business. It requires clarity, penetration, a broad view, and the insights of complexity science. Futurism based on the insights of complexity is a tool for thinking, planning, strategizing.
These skills can be learned. I can help you to learn them and I can deploy them in sharing my insights with you.
A futurism based on complexity looks at every element, shiny, dull, or invisible, and asks:
“What is it for?”
“How does it get its energy?”
“How does it affect other elements?”
Complex futurism can connect the dots and the 3-D networks of dots building out over time to paint the pictures of future scenarios, of ways the future could really turn out, what will take us there, and what strategies we might employ to meet them.
This is what I do. And it’s what I help you do for yourselves.
I now have a framework for helping you and your audiences think about the future.
Healthcare is changing — consolidation, new tech, political chaos, a vast and growing IT overburden, shifting rules, ever-rising costs, new solutions, business model experiments. And it will continue to do this for some time. Ask me how I can help you. 707-324-3194
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