1. A Career in Healthcare? Why healthcare is the most
interesting and important career you can choose
2. Benjamin Resner BA Physics, Cornell 1990 Masters Degree from
MIT Media Lab 2001 CTO & Co-Founder of Ambient Devices Pivoting
to Healthcare. Why?
3. This is beyond AWFUL! What if other industries were run like
healthcare? Why is this so bad?
4. We dont sell batteries here This Would be a Toy Store
Perhaps uptown, but theyre closed now.
5. Fragmentation Why cant I leave my doctors office with a
fresh bottle of pills? Why do I have to go elsewhere? No
coordination between specialists and primary care. If I visit an ER
in Florida, they know NOTHING about my medical history and my
doctor knows nothing about that visit
6. This Would Be Airline Ticket
7. This Would Be Paying With Credit
8. Healthcare is Slow To Modernize Prevalence of paper records
Privacy & Fear of Lawsuits are lame and tired excuses High
patient churn means long-term benefits of technology investment
will be reaped by someone else (see Fragmentation) Just because a
doctor is using a computer doesnt mean theyre getting full
benefit
9. This Would be Auto Repairs Ill let you know the cost when Im
done
10. Immune From Market Forces Little correlation between payers
and consumers. Little end-user price transparency (try calling
hospitals for estimate of knee-replacement costs?) Few consequences
for marginal care Little knowledge of outcomes for both patient and
doctor.
11. Applebees is more advanced than ER! Managing rooms in ER
Managing Tables at Applebees
12. Summary of Defects Fragmentation Slow to Modernize Immune
from Market Forces Everything else has gotten so much better,
theres more money to spend on healthcare
13. Path Forward Healthcare has a lot of low-hanging fruit no
need to wait for tech to advance. Simply applying the last 20 30
years of technology innovation will yields huge benefits This is
NOT a technical challenge. Weeklong iPhone Battery is a technical
challenge. If we include actual progress in life sciences, then
change becomes even more dramatic.
14. Role of Doctors Doctors are certainly important but their
role will change. Team-based approach Will look more like airline
pilots. Will come to accept centralized executive control with
well-defined autonomy This transition will require contributions
from lots of non-medical staff YOU! Challenges to healthcare will
be solved by doctors as much as challenges to airlines were solved
by pilots
15. HITECH Act of 2009 $25.9 billion to promote use of
interoperable electronic medical records (EMR) Healthcare is only
industry that has to be PAID to modernize
16. Other Careers? Lets take a look at other major career paths
and their appetite for change WARNING: This is snarky!
17. Housing in 1800
18. Housing Today
19. Housing 2050? Yeah, right
20. Transportation 1950
21. Transportation Today
22. Transportation 2050? Yeah, right
23. Self Driving Cars OK, This is interesting! Combines
technical AND design problems Also Zipcar, Lyft, Uber, Hailo
24. Energy 1800 HYDROCARBONS!HYDROCARBONS!
25. Energy Today Innovation means new sources of HYDROCARBONS
(e.g. fracking) Innovation means new sources of HYDROCARBONS (e.g.
fracking)
26. Energy 2050? Future depends on hydrocarbons becoming
EXPENSIVE as much as it does on alternatives becoming CHEAP Future
depends on hydrocarbons becoming EXPENSIVE as much as it does on
alternatives becoming CHEAP
27. Air Travel? Concorde: 1969 2003 R.I.P.
28. Social Networks
29. Entertainment / Leisure Yes, lots of true innovation
here!Yes, lots of true innovation here!
30. More Verticals Retail Food Defense Government Appetite for
Change?Appetite for Change?
31. Closing Advice Find what you love to do (e.g. management,
accounting, industrial design, robotics, etc.) Do this in
healthcare because their hunger for innovation is the greatest.
Youll be solving some of the hardest and most important problems
facing modern society. Youll get to move faster than any other
industry of commensurate size.