Institute For The Future

In 2009, the Health Horizons Program undertook a year-long examination of the future of health and health care. We started our journey with the
HC2020 Signals & Forecasts
Map (SR-1231), which highlights some of the pressing challenges facing health and health care, along with key response strategies likely to shape the direction of change over the next ten years.

The HC2020 Perspectives (available above for download as a PDF file) feature a series of forecast reports in which we take a closer look at:

• Innovations in health care information technologies that will combine to enable an abundance of health data to be refined and delivered selectively, only when and where needed
• The development of a marketplace for the proliferation of personal health data that will give individuals more control over their data and enable organizations to meet privacy concerns while also attracting patient data
• A re-engineering of health care in the form of systematically applied processes designed to deliver consistency, efficiency, and accountability of results based on current scientific knowledge
• Advances in neuroscientific technologies that will increase our understanding of neurological conditions, at the same time expanding that category to include more conditions than ever before
• Constant personal health forecasting based on more advanced and mainstreamed simulation and visualization technologies that will potentially reshape our daily health decisions
• A clustering of talent and investment around academic medical centers and mega-hospitals in urban settings, cultivated by the need for translational R&D that blurs the line between lab science and clinical practice

Feel free to share your comments about the HC2020 Perspectives, and to contact us if you have any questions.