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Health Care
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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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