This is a program delivered on 19 March 2012 by Glen Hiemstra to the 2012 Future of Telemedicine Conference put on by the Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center, in Billings, Montana. Glen Hiemstra is the Founder of Futurist.com and the Curator of DoTheFuture.com

1. Thinking in the Future Tense
moving telehealth from
the future to the present

2. what is your image
of the future?

3. the future creates the present…

4. not a mystery

5. 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

6. debt drag &
income gap economics
6000 years American
experiment

7. National Institute for Healthcare Reform, via NYT, Mar. 18, 2012

8. medicine today
• Diagnostics: “pauciparameter”
• Therapy— still reactive
• Prevention -- still a minor role
• Impersonal – generic answers

9. health care provider of the future?
•digital natives
•life style specialists
•systems biologists
•quick change artists
•upstream specialists
•gerontologists
•pre-disease counselors

10. 2020 traditionals
now 75+
boomers
now 56-74
old
generation X
young now 40-55
diverse millennials
now 20-39
post millennial
now 1-19

11. technology
acceleration

12. connectivity | convergence | 3D
nanotechnology | biotech

13. super intelligent assistance

14. Survey of 3700 physicians globally
Forbes, Jan. 26, 2012 - Why you may want your next exam via computer

15. the quantized-self health revolution

16. 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
Courtesy Leroy Hood: Institute for Systems Biology

17. 2 forces keep TH in the future
• political restrictions
• achieving consistency -
trust - sustainability

18. 3 waves to ride
to get from the future to the present...
• digital native practitioners
• 4-P medicine & Quantized-
self health revolution
• leverage urbanization
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19. the future is
something we do
the future is not
something that
just happens to us

20. thank you for your time
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