The Future of Healthcare & What to Expect This Decade
“The Healthcare Rx for Tweets, Googlers and Geezers”

What are the future trends that will rock healthcare and how will they affect you? Do you wonder what healthcare will be like in this coming decade? You must be ready for an extensive shift in focus in the healthcare management toward concentration on maximizing the length and quality of life. You are a technological-age caregiver, dealing with new fields such as genomics, bioinformatics and pharmacogenomics. You are thrust into a world of complex responsibilities, confusing dilemmas and high-stake decisions – all in a pressure-cooker environment where evidence-based outcomes and the "right thing to do” reigns.

By examining future dynamics, this program supplies the healthcare provider tools to flourish while delivering quality attention and care with a watchful eye on the future.

With the information in this program you will:

• Explore critical issues, emerging technologies and trends toward the year 2020
• Investigate the national debate about collaboration with healthcare providers, insurers, employers, consumers, governments, and technology companies
• Look at the rubric of healthcare – preventive, acute, catastrophic care
• Find solutions to the nursing shortage, recruitment and retention
• Understand caring for varied generations and diverse cultures with shifts in direction and trends
• Learn how to craft your career reflecting your personal strengths
• Learn about genomics, bioinformatics and pharmacogenomics
• Discover people-centered design disciplines to show how elegant health and life science technology solutions will one day become a natural part of our behavior and lifestyle
• Identify ways to benefit from the chaos that change produces
• Envision a safer healthcare future
• Explore advances in wirelessly connected devices and social networking platforms that make the job of a "family health manager" more effective
• Explore your options and opportunities for teaching wellness and coordinating patients with their environment, technology and treatments

Presentation Length and Method:

This program can be presented as a keynote, a breakout session or a half-day seminar. Lecture, audience participation, stories, instructional exercises, current research, visuals and music.

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