Tom Peters’ Toward Health (care ) Excellence ! Version.23January2006
Mar 20, 2016
Tom Peters’ Toward
Health(care) Excellence!
Version.23January2006
Slides at …
tompeters.com
Health(care): Seven Main Messages1. Quality (Error reduction/ Evidence-based Medicine)2. “Healthcare” vs. “Health” (Wellness + Prevention)3. “Models of Excellence” available4. Life sciences (“Singularity”)5. Dubai as global/unique/“insanely great” “Center of Excellence”6. Avian flu7. Africa
Manifesto(s)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Healthcare” vs “Health”
TP’s Healing & Wellness Manifesto2006(1) Acute-care facilities are “killing fields.” (WE KNOW WHAT TO DO.)(2) Shift the “community” focus 90 degrees (not 180, but not 25) from “fix it” to “prevent it.” (WE KNOW WHAT TO DO.)(3) There are three primary aims for “all this”: Wellness-Healing-Health. (WE KNOW WHAT TO DO.)(4) I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore. (I KNOW WHAT TO DO.)
Tom’s Rant2006
1. Hospital “quality control,” at least in the U.S.A., is a bad, bad joke: Depending on whose stats you believe, hospitals kill 100,000 or so of us a year—and wound many times that number. Finally, “they” are “getting around to” dealing with the issue. Well, thanks. And what is it we’ve been buying for our Trillion or so bucks a year? The fix is eminently do-able … which makes the condition even more intolerable. (“Disgrace” is far too kind a label for the “condition.” Who’s to blame? Just about everybody, starting with the docs who consider oversight from anyone other than fellow clan members to be unacceptable.)
2. The “system”—training, docs, insurance incentives, “culture,” “patients” themselves—is hopelessly-mindlessly-insanely (as I see it) skewed toward fixing things (e.g. me) that are broken—not preventing the problem in the first place and providing the Maintenance Tools necessary for a healthy lifestyle. Sure, bio-medicine will soon allow us to understand and deal with individual genetic pre-dispositions. (And hooray!) But take it from this 63-year old, decades of physical and psychological self-abuse can literally be reversed in relatively short order by an encompassing approach to life that can only be described as a “Passion for Wellness (and Well-being).” Patients—like me—are catching on in record numbers; but “the system” is highly resistant. (Again, the doctors are among the biggest sinners—no surprise, following years of acculturation as the “man-with-the-white-coat-who-will-now-miraculously-dispense-fix it-pills-and-surgical-incisions-for-you-the-unwashed.” (Come to think of it, maybe I’ll start wearing a White Coat to my doctor’s office—after all, I am the Professional-in-Charge when it comes to my Body & Soul. Right?)
BIGGEST DEAL OF
ALL
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Healthcare” vs “Health”
TP Recce #1:
Dubai Healthcare City to
Dubai Health City*
*Cleveland Clinic and Canyon Ranch
“Quality”:
COULD IT TRULY BE
THIS AWFUL?
“When I climb Mount Rainier I face less
risk of death than I’ll face on the operating table.” —Don Berwick, “Six Keys to Safer Hospitals: A Set of Simple
Precautions Could Prevent 100,000 Needless Deaths Every Year,” Newsweek (1212.2005)
CDC 1998: 90,000 killed and 2,000,000 injured
from hospital-caused drug errors & infections
HealthGrades/Denver:
195,000 hospital deaths per year in the U.S., 2000-2002 = 390 full jumbos/747s in the drink per year.Comments: “This should give you pause when you go to the hospital.” —Dr. Kenneth
Kizer, National Quality Forum. “There is little evidence that patient safety has improved in the last five years.” —Dr. Samantha Collier
Source: Boston Globe/07.27.04
Welcome to the Homer Simpson Hospital
a/k/a
The Killing Fields
1,000,000 “serious medication errors per year” …
“illegible handwriting, misplaced decimal points, and missed drug
interactions and allergies.”
Source: Wall Street Journal/Institute of Medicine
YE GADS! New England Journal of Medicine/ Harvard Medical Practice Study: 4% error rate (1 of 4 negligence). “Subsequent investigations around the country have confirmed the ubiquity of error.” “In one small study of how clinicians perform when
patients have a sudden cardiac arrest, 27 of 30 clinicians made an error in using the defibrillator.” Mistakes in administering drugs (1995 study) “average once every hospital
admission.” “Lucian Leape, medicine’s leading expert on error, points out that many other industries—whether the task is
manufacturing semiconductors or serving customers at the Ritz Carlton—simply wouldn’t countenance error rates like those in
hospitals.” —Complications, Atul Gawande
RAND (1998): 50%, appropriate preventive care. 60%,
recommended treatment, per medical studies, for chronic
conditions. 20% chronic care treatment that is wrong. 30% acute care treatment that is
wrong.
Various studies: 1 in 3, 1 in 5, 1 in 7, 1 in 20 patients “harmed by
treatment” Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability
in the Information Age, Michael Millenson
“In a disturbing 1991 study, 110 nurses of varying experience levels took a written
test of their ability to calculate medication doses. Eight out of 10 made calculation
mistakes at least 10% of the time,
while four out of 10 made mistakes 30% of
the time.”Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability
in the Information Age, Michael Millenson
20%: not get prescriptions filled50%: use meds inconsistentlySource: Tom Farley & Deborah Cohen, Prescription for a Healthy Nation
“In health care, geography is
destiny.”Source: Dartmouth Medical School 1996 report
Geography Is Destiny“Often all one must do to acquire a
disease is to enter a country where a disease is recognized—leaving the
country will either cure the malady or turn it into something else. … Blood pressure
considered treatably high in the United States might be considered normal in England; and the low blood
pressure treated with 85 drugs as well as hydrotherapy and spa treatments in Germany would entitle its sufferer to lower life insurance rates in the
United States.” – Lynn Payer, Medicine & Culture
Geography Is DestinyE.g.: Ft. Myers 4X Manhattan—back surgery. Newark 2X New Haven—
prostatectomy. Rapid City SD 34X Elyria OH—breast-conserving surgery. VT, ME, IA: 3X differences in hysterectomy
by age 70; 8X tonsillectomy; 4X prostatectomy Breast cancer screening: 4X NE, FL, MI vs. SE, SW. (Source: various)
“A healthcare delivery system characterized by idiosyncratic and often ill-informed judgments mustbe
restructured according to
evidence-based medical
practice.”Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability
in the Information Age, Michael Millenson
“Without being disrespectful, I consider the U.S. healthcare delivery system the largest cottage industry
in the world. There are virtually no performance
measurements and no standards. Trying to measure
performance … is the next revolution in healthcare.”Richard Huber, former CEO, Aetna
“Practice variation is not caused by ‘bad’ or ‘ignorant’ doctors. Rather, it is a natural consequence
of a system that systematically tracks neither its processes nor its outcomes,
preferring to presume that good facilities, good intentions and good training lead automatically to good results. Providers
remain more comfortable with the habits of a guild, where each craftsman trusts his fellows, than with the
demands of the information age.”
Michael Millenson, Demanding Medical Excellence
“As unsettling as the prevalence of inappropriate care is the enormous amount of what can only be called
ignorant care. A surprising 85% of everyday medical treatments have never been scientifically
validated. … For instance, when family practitioners in Washington State were queried about treating a simple urinary tract infection, 82 physicians
came up with an extraordinary 137 strategies.”Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability
in the Information Age, Michael Millenson
“Most physicians believe that diagnosis can’t be reduced to a set
of generalizations—to a ‘cookbook.’ … How often does my intuition lead me astray? The radical implication of the
Swedish study is that the individualized, intuitive approach that lies at the center of modern medicine is flawed—it causes more mistakes
than it prevents.” —Atul Gawande, Complications
Deep Blue Redux*: 2,240 EKGs … 1,120 heart attacks.
Hans Ohlin (50 yr old chief of coronary care, Univ of
Lund/SW) : 620. Lars Edenbrandt’s
software: 738.
*Only this time it matters!
Dr Larry Weed/POMR (“problem-oriented medical
record”)/Etc: “It’s impossible to keep up with the avalanche of knowledge. Therefore it’s essential to use a valid diagnostic-decision
aid like Larry’s” —Neil de Crescenzo, VP Global
Healthcare/IBM Consulting “There is no other profession that tries to operate in
the fashion we do. We go on hallucinating about what we can
do.” —Dr Charles Burger (using Weed’s software for 20 years)
Probable parole violations: Simple model (age, # of previous offenses, type of crime) beats M.D.
shrinks.
100 studies: Statistical formulas > Human
judgment. “In virtually all cases, statistical thinking equaled
or surpassed human judgment.” —Atul Gawande, Complications
PARADOX: Many, many formal case reviews …
failure to systematically/ systemically/ statistically
look at and act on evidence.Source: Complications, Atul Gawande
Genius Required?
Leapfrog Group:
CPOE/Computerized Physician Order Entry*ICU staffing by trained intensivists**EHR/Evidence-based Hospital Referral***
Source: HealthLeaders
The Benefits of … FOCUSED EXCELLENCE
Shouldice/Hernia Repair: 30-45 min, 1% recurrence.
Avg: 90 min, 10%-15% recurrence.
Source: Complications, Atul Gawande
About Time!
100,000 Lives Campaign*
*Don Berwick/Institute for Healthcare Improvement
“What’s your name? When’s your birthday?”
Hospitals Pay Appropriate Attention To Medical Errors
Yes ………………………………. 1%Aware and Trying Hard ……... 8%Aware But Tepid Response … 22%No ………………………………... 25%An Inexcusable Tragedy …….. 44%
Source: 12.2005 Poll/tompeters.com
Attention/ “Being There”:
Job One!
You = Your
Calendar
“You must be the change you
wish to see in the world.”
Gandhi
The Necessary
IS/Web REVOLUTION
We all live in Dell-Wal*Mart-
eBay-Google World!
We [almost] all live in
Dell-Wal*Mart-eBay-Google
World!
“Some grocery stores have better
technology than our hospitals and
clinics.” —Tommy Thompson, HHS Secretary
Source: Special Report on technology in healthcare, U.S. News & World Report (07.04)
Computerized Physician Order
Entry/CPOE: 5% of U.S.
hospitals
source: HealthLeaders/06.02
Henry Lowe, U. of Pitt. School of
Medicine: “Broadband, Internet-based,
‘multimedia’ electronic medical records”
Telemedicine: E.g. …
HANC* [Home Assisted Nursing Care]
*BP, ECG, pulse, temp, etc
Telemedicine …Reduces days/1000 patients and
physician visits for the chronically illDecreases costs of managing chronic
diseaseExpands service areas for providers
Reduces travel costs to and from medical ed seminars
Source: Douglas Goldstein, e-Healthcare
“Our entire facility is digital. No paper, no film, no medical records. Nothing. And it’s all integrated—from the lab to X-ray to records to physician order entry. Patients don’t have to wait for anything. The information from the physician’s office is
in registration and vice versa. The referring physician is immediately sent an email telling him his patient has shown up. … It’s wireless in-house. We have 800 notebook computers that are wireless. Physicians can walk around with a computer that’s
pre-programmed. If the physician wants, we’ll go out and wire their house so they can sit on the couch and connect to the
network. They can review a chart from 100 miles away.” —David Veillette, CEO, Indiana Heart Hospital (HealthLeaders/12.2002)
Health**vs Healthcare
Health
*vs Healthcare
Health
*vs Healthcare
Health
*vs Healthcare
“Sanitary revolution”: mortality in major cities
down 55% between 1850 and 1915
Source: Tom Farley & Deborah Cohen, Prescription for a Healthy Nation
“Gwen [former healthcare exec] has wonderful health insurance and an abundance of healthcare. What Gwen does not have is
health. And there is nothing our health system can do to give it to her.” “The battle cry is always health, but in fact the struggle has always been over healthcare.” “For all its inspiring, high-
tech cures, medicine is just not very effective at curing our era’s
major killers.” “Medicine doesn’t do much chronic disease.” “When the most
common killers of our era are mostly incurable and our preventive treatments pretty feeble, you have to wonder about
medical care as a whole.” “There is a widely held view that medical care contributes little to health.” (John Bunker/ Journal of the
Royal College of Physicians)
Source: Tom Farley & Deborah Cohen, Prescription for a Healthy Nation
Smoking, excess
drinking, lack of exercise, shitty diet:
40% of deaths
Source: Tom Farley & Deborah Cohen, Prescription for a Healthy Nation
“Our mistake is not that we value medical care—but that
we have misunderstood what it can and cannot do.”
Source: Tom Farley & Deborah Cohen, Prescription for a Healthy Nation
“Curve Shifting”Source: Tom Farley & Deborah Cohen,
Prescription for a Healthy Nation
“Bump into factor”: Extra-size portions, eat more. Higher %
shelf space snacks, more obesity. More liquor stores, more crime. High vs low fat: Japanese who
emigrate to U.S. suffer 3X increase in heart disease.
Source: Tom Farley & Deborah Cohen, Prescription for a Healthy Nation
Context Change: The Most Powerful Force (??)
Wastebaskets: Japan v U.S.; Christchurch NZ v
Sydney AUS*
*“Broken windows”
+10: Sardinians, Adventists, Okinawans
Don’t smoke. Put family first. Be active every day. Keep socially engaged. Eat fruits, vegetables,
whole grains. [Other: nuts, red wine, pecorino cheese, small portions.]
Source: National Geographic (National Institute on Aging), November 2005
“An estimated 60 to 90 percent of doctor visits involve stress-related
complaints.” —Newsweek/09.27.2004
Wellness
“The ‘curative model’ narrowly focuses on the goal of cure. …
From many quarters comes evidence that the view of health
should be expanded to encompass mental, social and
spiritual well-being.” Institute for the Future
“Ontario To Split Health Ministry” —Headline/
Globe And Mail /06.05 (New ministry will focus on Prevention/
Wellness/Eldercare)
“Savior for the Sick”vs.
“Partner for Good Health”
Source: NPR
“Companies Step Up Wellness Efforts: Rising
health costs provide incentive to promote healthier employee
lifestyles” —headline/USA Today/08.05
“Prevention Program At Dow Chemical
Aims To Save Money” —IBD/08.05
Sprint/Overland Park KS: Slow elevators, distant parking lots with infrequent buses, “food
court” as “poorly” placed as possible, etc.
Source: New York Times
Tom’s Story
Obesity/-79(-36); BP (140-85 to 90-60); Blood sugar (180-
87); Blood chemistry (normal+); Cholesterol (140-
58); Metabolic rate/RMR (+250); Mental state
(dramatic improvement*)
“Fixes”Diet (eg small portions, slow down)
Extreme exercise!Meditation
Dietary supplementsNo alcohol
(Psychotropic meds/others reduced)(No work reduction)
Aging reversal!!!!
**Why wasn’t I “informed”
until age 59?
Determinants of Health
Access to care: 10%Genetics: 20%
Environment: 20%
Health Behaviors: 50%Source: Institute for the Future
Planetree: A Radical Model for New
Healthcare/Healing/Health/Wellness Excellence*
* “It” can be done!
“It was the goal of the Planetree Unit to help patients not only get well faster but also to
stay well longer.” —Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
“Much of our current healthcare is about curing.
Curing is good. But healing is spiritual, and healing is
better, because we can heal many people we cannot cure.” —Leland Kaiser, “Holistic Hospitals”
Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
The Nine Planetree Practices1. The Importance of Human Interaction2. Informing and Empowering Diverse Populations: Consumer Health Libraries and Patient Information3. Healing Partnerships: The importance of Including Friends and Family4. Nutrition: The Nurturing Aspect of Food5. Spirituality: Inner Resources for Healing6. Human Touch: The Essentials of Communicating Caring Through Massage7. Healing Arts: Nutrition for the Soul8. Integrating Complementary and Alternative Practices into Conventional Care9. Healing Environments: Architecture and Design Conducive to HealthSource: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
1. The Importance of Human Interaction
“There is a misconception that supportive interactions require more staff or more time and are therefore more costly.
Although labor costs are a substantial part of any hospital budget, the interactions themselves add nothing to the budget.
Kindness is free. Listening to patients or answering their questions costs nothing. It can be argued that negative interactions—alienating patients, being
non-responsive to their needs or limiting their sense of control—can be very costly. … Angry, frustrated or frightened patients may be combative, withdrawn and less cooperative—requiring
far more time than it would have taken to interact with them initially in a positive way.” —Putting Patients First, Susan
Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
Press Ganey Assoc/1999: 139,380 former patients from 225 hospitals
0 of top 15 factors determining Patient Satisfaction referred to patient’s health outcome
PS directly related to Staff Interaction
PS directly correlated with ES (Employee Satisfaction)
Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
“Perhaps the simplest and most profound of all human interactions is KINDNESS. … But if it is so simple, it is surprising how
frequently it is absent from our healthcare environments. … Many staff members
report verbal ‘abuse’ by physicians, managers and coworkers.” —
Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
“Planetree is about human beings caring
for other human beings.” —Putting Patients First, Susan
Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel (“Ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen”—4S credo)
2. Informing and Empowering Diverse
Populations: Consumer Health Libraries and
Patient Information
Planetree Health Resources Center/1981Planetree Classification System
Consumer Health LibrariansVolunteers
Classes, lecturesHealth Fairs
Griffin’s Mobile Health Resource CenterOpen Chart Policy
Patient Progress NotesCare Coordination Conferences (Est goals, timetable,
etc.)
Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
3. Healing Partnerships: The
Importance of Including
Friends and Family
“When hospital staff members are asked to list the attributes of the ‘perfect patient
and family,’ their response is usually a passive patient with no family.” —Putting
Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
The Patient-Family Experience
“Patients are stripped of control, their clothes are
taken away, they have little say over their schedule, and
they are deliberately separated from their family
and friends. Healthcare professionals control all of the information about their patients’ bodies and access
to the people who can answer questions and
connect them with helpful resources. Families are
treated more as intruders than loved ones.”
—Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
“Family members, close friends and ‘significant others’ can
have a far greater impact on patients’ experience of illness, and on their long-term health
and happiness, than any healthcare professional.” —Through
the Patient’s Eyes
“A 7-year follow-up of women diagnosed with breast cancer
showed that those who confided in at least one person in the 3
months after surgery had a 7-year survival rate of 72.4%, as
compared to 56.3% for those who didn’t have a confidant.”
Institute for the Future
Institute of Medicine/ “Crossing the Quality Chasm”
Respect for preferencesInvolvement in Decision Making
Access to careCoordination of care
Information and educationPhysical comfort
Emotional supportInvolvement of Friends and Family
Continuity of care
Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
Care Partner Programs (IDs, discount meals, etc.)
Unrestricted visits (“Most Planetree hospitals have eliminated visiting restrictions altogether.”) (ER at one hospital “has a policy of never
separating the patient from the family, and there is no limitation on how many family members may be present.”)
Collaborative Care ConferencesClinical Guidelines Discussions
Family SpacesPet Visits (POP: Patients’ Own Pets)
Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
4. Nutrition: The Nurturing Aspect
of Food
Meals are central eventsvs
“There, you’re fed.” *
*Irony: Focus on “nutrition” has reduced focus on “food” and “service”
Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
KitchenBeautiful cutlery, plates, etc
Chef rep
Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
“Aroma therapy” (eg “smell of baking cookies”)
Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
5. Spirituality: Inner Resources for Healing
Spirituality: Meaning and Connectedness in Life
1. Connected to supportive and caring group2. Sense of mastery and control3. Make meaning out of disease/find meaning in suffering
Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
6. Human Touch: The Essentials of Communicating
Caring Through Massage
“Massage is a powerful way to
communicate caring.” —Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton,
Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
Mid-Columbia Medical Center/Center for Mind and Body
Massage for every patient scheduled for ambulatory surgery (“Go into surgery with a good attitude”)
Infant massageStaff massage (“caring for the caregivers”)
Healing environments: chemo!
Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
7. Healing Arts: Nutrition for the Soul
Planetree: “Environment conducive to healing”
Color!Light!
Brilliance!Form!Art!
Music!Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
8. Integrating Complementary and
Alternative Practices into Conventional Care
Griffin IMC/Integrative Medicine Center
MassageAcupunctureMeditation
ChiropracticNutritional supplements
Aroma therapy
Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
CAM (Complementary & Alternative Medicine):
83M in US (42%)CAM visits 243M, greater than to PCP (Primary Care
Physician) (With min insurance coverage)W-Educated-Hi inc
Don’t tell PCP (40%)And: <30% procedures used in conventional medicine
have undergone RCTs (randomized clinical trials)
Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
Conclusion: Caring/Growth “Experience”
Care!Control!Connect! Engage!Grow!
De-stress!
9. Healing Environments: Architecture and
Design Conduciveto Health
“Planetree Look”
Woods and natural materialsIndirect lighting
Homelike settings
Goals: Welcome patients, friends and family … Value humans over technology .. Enable patients to participate in their care … Provide flexibility to
personalize the care of each patient … Encourage caregivers to be responsive to patients … Foster a
connection to nature and beauty
Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
Access to nurses station:
“Happen to”vs
“Happen with”Source: Putting Patients First, Susan Frampton, Laura Gilpin, Patrick Charmel
Learn more about Planetree/ The Planetree Alliance:
www.planetree.org
Life Sciences Revo Rocks Our World*
*Coming soon to a …
“On February 12, 2001, anyone with access to the Internet …
Could suddenly look at a new atlas …
One containing the whole human
genome.”
Source: Juan Enriquez, As The Future Catches You
“WE ARE BEGINNING TO ACQUIRE … DIRECT AND
DELIBERATE CONTROL … OVER THE EVOLUTION OF ALL LIFE FORMS …
ON THE PLANET.”Source: Juan Enriquez, As The Future Catches You
GRIN: Genetics, Robotics (nanotech),
Information, NanotechSource: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies—and What It Means to Be Human, Joel Garreau
“We face the biggest change in tens of thousands of years in what it means to
be human.” … “In just 20 years the boundary between fantasy and reality
will be rent asunder.” (Rodney Brooks, AIL/MIT) … “We are at an inflection point in history.”
… “It is about the defining cultural, social, and political issue of our age. It is about
human transformation.” Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds,
Our Bodies—and What It Means to Be Human, Joel Garreau
Ray Kurzweil: “Singularity”
415-page doc, Department of Commerce/NSF: Converging Technologies for Increasing
Human Performance Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds,
Our Bodies—and What It Means to Be Human, Joel Garreau
“Soldiers having no physical, physiological, or cognitive limitations will be key to survival and
operational dominance in the future.” —Michael Goldblatt, Director,
Defense Sciences Office/DARPA
Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies—and What It Means to Be Human, Joel Garreau
“Singularity”/“Bionic Tom,” circa 2006: Medtronic pacemaker (heart micro-
management) ; psychotropics (mental micro-management) ; Google (mind-extension—smart-
beyond-measure) ; Samsung cell phone (instant-permanent planetary connectedness) ;
Orvis shirt (“smart skin”)
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like
irrelevance even less.” —General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
H5N1
Kroll/SARS: “don’t over-react”Kroll/H5N1:
“devastating”Source: Newsweek/10.24.05
Health(care): Seven Main Messages1. Quality (Error reduction/ Evidence-based Medicine)2. “Healthcare” vs. “Health” (Wellness + Prevention)3. “Models of Excellence” available4. Life sciences (“Singularity”)5. Dubai as global/unique/“insanely great” “Center of Excellence”6. Avian flu7. Africa (Hats off to Bill & Melinda & Bono)