Keynote & Workshop Topics
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Health Care
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Making I.T. Happen: Using Information Technology as the Force Multiplier in Health Care
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The government of Ontario projects that, left unchanged, about 70% of program spending will be devoted to health care by the early years of the 2020’s decade, leaving only 30% for all other government responsibilities. This is clearly unsustainable, so a revolution in health care is a must. Richard Worzel, a strategic planner and Canada’s leading futurist, surveys the landscape of healthcare’s future, and I.T.’s place in it to:
• Identify the components of tomorrow’s health care system;
• Outline the ways in which the different participants will work together in an integrated approach to health care;
• Describe the end result of a global health care mechanism that will supply the greatest health care tool humanity may ever have; and
• Illustrate the possibilities open to individual professionals working in IT that can lead us to these future breakthroughs.
Richard will bring the big picture down to the individual level, and talk about how the distant future can be incorporated in the day-to-day thinking and operations of everyone involved. You’ll walk away with a clearer idea of where we are headed, how we will get there, and what you can do to make it happen.
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Sea Change: The Future of Medicine for the U.S. Navy and Naval Personnel
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The future of health care in all sectors will be dominated by three major factors: technology, demographics, and money. As pertains to the Navy and naval personnel, you must add the unique aspects that pertain to conflict and combat, and the rising threats from terrorism and failed states. Richard Worzel is a strategic planner, a Chartered Financial Analyst, and one of today’s leading futurists. In this overview of tomorrow’s medicine, he will survey the landscape of tomorrow’s health care, including:
• How technology is pushing advances at computer speeds, with novel new techniques like Genetic Programming adding computer intelligence to research efforts, and vastly improving the basic tools of medical treatment in areas such as imaging, customized pharmaceuticals, and diagnostics;
• How wearable computers and the low-cost reading of individual DNA patterns will revolutionize health care, both by providing early diagnosis of imminent health threats to individuals and populations, and, when coupled with electronic health records and data mining, provide the most important medical tool humanity may ever produce;
• How an aging population among ex-Naval and Marine personnel will shift the health concerns that dominate budget allocations, as well as the way in which an aging American population will pose severe budget constraints on all governmental operations, including the Armed Forces;
• How the rise of everyday robots, machine intelligences, and automation will change the location, speed, conduct, and nature of military conflict;
• How China’s rise as a superpower seems monolithic and inevitable, but will be fraught with challenges, and who else is edging towards becoming major geopolitical players;
• And, finally, how the pace of change itself will become a critical factor in determining both the effectiveness of global military powers, and the nature and range of things that medical personnel will be capable of doing.
The future of America and the western democracies is mutuating before our very eyes. There is so much happening in so many areas that it is hard to keep track, and the practice of medicine is near or at the very focal point of the changes to come.
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How Risk Management Affects Health Care: The Future of Risk Management in an Uncertain World
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The events of the past 24 months have tested the abilities of risk managers to exercise strategic foresight, and adequately prepare for a world where greater uncertainties will be the norm. How, then, can risk managers prepare for what’s to come, especially in a fast-changing field like health care? Richard Worzel is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a strategic planner, and one of today’s leading futurists. In this presentation, he will explore some of the critical challenges ahead, and offer suggestions on how to cope. In particular, he will deal with:
• A futurist’s view of risk management is much broader than that of the traditional risk management literature, because it includes a broader range of potential risks. Accordingly, what are the three principal kinds of risks, and how do organizations classically respond to them? (Hint: not as well as they should.)
• What’s ahead for the Canadian, American, and world economies? What are the outlooks for inflation and renewed recession? And what nasty surprises could yet be lurking, buried in the urgent, but less important details of the recent panic?
• How is demographics changing society, health care, and government funding? What should hospitals prepare for? And what are the gradually developing risks that are largely being overlooked?
• Technology offers risks both positive and negative, yet risk managers often overlook the importance of positive risks. And technology will wreak twice as many changes on organizations and society over the next 10 years than over the past 10. Such changes include better understanding of the genome, nutrition, the rapid change in the pharmaceutical industry, and the rising expectations of patients and their families.
In addition to exploring these topics, Richard also supplies conferees, free of charge, an electronic copy of the handbook he developed for his consulting clients, Risk Management and Scenario Planning: How to Avoid Problems and Spot Opportunities. Risk managers will walk away both with a better understanding of what they are facing, and with new tools for improving future results.
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Strange Days: The Future of Health Care & Pharmaceuticals
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Ever since the Human Genome Project showed the value of using computers in medical research, research is starting to move at in silico speeds instead of in vitro speeds. Richard Worzel, best-selling author and Canada’s leading futurist, surveys the health care landscape of the next 25 years, and highlights:
• How health care will change, and why it must;
• How a global medical warning system will gather instant-by-instant reports on the health status of close to 5 billion people, and what the implications for future research and data mining;
• The new kinds of research tools that must be used to deal with data overload that is rising by orders of magnitude every five years or so;
• How drug research will change because of these new tools, and why such tools will force a complete change in the way pharmaceuticals are marketed.
• How the power of the Internet is re-shaping the pharma industry into a demand-pull model instead of a supply-push model.
• What demographics means to drug sales and marketing, and why it will require a new approach to provincial formularies.
Richard compares the advances of the next 25 years with the advances in medicine made over the 150 years from 1860 to today. ‘We will look back on the way we practice health management today, and compare it to the use of leeches and blood-letting of earlier eras,’ he says, ‘And this has major implications for all the players, including governments, patients, pharma companies, and health care practitioners.’
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Opportunity Pounds: The Future of IT in Health Care
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Opportunity is not knocking in applications of IT to health care; it is pounding down the door. Ever since the Human Genome Project showed the value of using computers in medical research, new research techniques and new IT applications are starting to cause health care management and new breakthroughs to move at in silico speeds instead of in vitro speeds. Richard Worzel, best-selling author and one of today's leading futurists, surveys the landscape of tomorrow, and highlights:
• How health care will change over the next 25 years, and why it absolutely must;
• How a global medical warning system will gather instant-by-instant reports on the health status of close to 4 billions people, and what the implications for future research and data mining;
• The basic building block of such a system will be invisible in 25 years’ time, but is already in evidence today;
• The new kinds of research tools that must be used to deal with data overload that is rising by orders of magnitude every five years or so;
• And the emergence of help from surprising, even unexpected sources.
Richard compares the advances of the next 25 years with the advances in medicine made between 1860 and today. 'We will look back on the way we practice health management today, and compare it to the use of leeches and blood-letting of earlier eras,' he says, 'And this has major implications for all the players, including governments, patients, pharma companies, and health care practitioners.'
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Inventing Our Way Around the Health Care Worker Shortage
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Every health care facility in the country is experiencing a shortage of health care workers of all kinds, and every facility is trying to deal with this shortage in more or less the same ways. Obviously, most of them will fail. What, then, can a forward-thinking organization do that is different?
Richard Worzel is one of North America’s leading futurists, a strategic planner, and experienced at working with health care professionals and organizations. In this presentation, he will lay out the challenges ahead from demographics, technology, research, and geopolitics, and then work with participants in inventing new approaches in a field where demand will exceed supply for some years to come. Along the way, he’ll give participants a toolbox of future-oriented planning tools that will help them repeat and continue the work on their own.
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A Hands-on Future
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The future for chiropractors offers both more opportunity, and less stability. In this intriguing and entertaining presentation, futurist Richard Worzel discusses the changes coming to the society in which we work, the massive transformations coming to health care generally, and how they will affect chiropractors both personally and professionally.
The cost of health care is ballooning as the baby boomers reach their mid-50's, causing convulsions in the way health care is practiced. New technologies will emerge, and alternative medicines are going to be accepted, sparking significant changes in the way people manage their health. Boomers in particular have a history of disregarding traditional medical practices and changing the way health management is applied. Many of these changes will play to the advantage of chiropractors, while others will cause them to re-assess and change the way they run their businesses. Meanwhile, governments will be experiencing extreme financial pressure because of the steadily expanding costs of traditional health care, with results that will bring both problems and opportunities to the profession. Join us in this intriguing and practical survey of the demographic, technological, and political forces that are going to change and affect chiropractic practice.
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We Can't Handle the Truth: The Future of Health Care
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The single greatest public policy issue of the next half century will be health care, as the aging baby boomers both live longer, and place ever-increasing strains on health care budgets and facilities. This has major implications for every aspect of our future life, but notably for the those who work in and with health care. Your jobs are going to be complicated by the explosion of knowledge emerging from genetics and molecular biology, the intrusion of IT into medicine in everything from imaging, to patient records, to foundational research, and from the steadily rising expectations of politicians, voters, and those in need of health care.
In this wide-ranging and provocative presentation, futurist Richard Worzel surveys the underlying demographic causes of the coming crisis, identifies the technologies that will offer novel or even revolutionary solutions to diseases and conditions that are currently untreatable, and describe the probable results, both in the politics of tomorrow, and in likely responses by public and private sector participants in the health care field. Participants will walk away with a big picture understanding of the issues that will need to be confronted, and how they may present themselves as challenges for health care workers, policy makers, and users of the system.
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Towards a Healthier Society: The Future of Health Care
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We've never known more than we do know now about how to diagnose and cure the diseases and illnesses that plague humanity. Advances in bio-technology have made it possible to affect, and even to transform, the very nature of life. Yet, never has healthcare been under greater threat. In this important new presentation, Richard Worzel explores the future of healthcare and the things we'll need to do if we're going to deliver on the promise of the bio-tech revolution. This presentation will touch on:
- The effects of demographic change on our healthcare system.
- The nature of the bio-tech revolution, and how it intersects with advances in other areas of information technology to offer astonishing new hope for human health and well-being.
- The changing role of government, and how the impact this will have on our healthcare system.
Whether you're a front-line healthcare worker, an administrator, or simply an interested citizen, this presentation will provide you with the tools you need to meet the challenges, and deliver on the promise, of world-class healthcare in the next century.
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Threats and Promises in Tomorrow's Health Care
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Health care practitioners are increasingly aware of the seeming contradiction in the future of health care: immense promise coupled with enormous problems. Strategic planner and professional futurist Richard Worzel examines both the problems and the opportunities ahead, tracing them back to their roots in demographics, technology, and political realities to map out the terrain of tomorrow's health care. This challenging and intriguing presentation will highlight the areas of greatest danger, and also specify the pivotal issues on which the future of health care will turn, giving practitioners the keys they need to manage the future of their profession, rather than be run over by it.
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