 Chelsea Piers on Manhattan’s lower west side hosted CBInsights “Future of Health” conference On October 2nd and 3rd. Reviewing the agenda over a cup of coffee, it became clear that this event would highlight technology’s promise, threat and opportunities in healthcare fueled by an abundance of capital looking for a home.
Why healthcare? Why not. Every aspect of our lives is being impacted through technology. As US healthcare spending approaches 20% of GDP, an aging global population and disparate access to healthcare, technology holds a promise to revolutionize health in this 4th Industrial Revolution. Walking the few blocks to the sessions, I thought about Peter Diamandis and his thesis on technology that it “(Technology) takes what is scarce and makes it abundant.” Countless examples come to mind whether it Moore’s Law and computational power / costs or the story of Napoleon III serving the King of Siam on Aluminum dinnerware (Aluminum was more valuable than gold or silver at the time and that’s why six pounds of it sits atop the Washington Monument) or the fact that laboratories can now produce flawless, harder diamonds than the Earth, coal and pressure can. Technology will democratize healthcare, providing broader access to services, lowering the costs, improving the quality and disrupting the current network in ways that we can see and even more that we likely cannot yet see. To deny these changes is burying your head in the sand.
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