The U.S. health system is oriented around sickness, not wellness. Redirecting our attention to prevention of disease and faster delivery
of cures will keep people healthier longer and could help restrain cost increases over time. However, collaboration and innovation will be
needed within and beyond the health industry. Government and private industry must work together to design appropriate incentives throughout
the value chain oriented around health.
The basic tenet for this breakout is that the combination of rising patient expectations, innovations in the biological sciences that
address unmet medical needs, rapidly improving connectivity, and disruptive changes in content access and delivery, will create a radically
different environment for health care delivery. Incremental improvements to the status quo will not be enough to convince the various
sectors that real progress is being made. Rather than a traditional provider-disease model, the wellness-illness spectrum will be redefined,
and people will navigate a much more complex and interconnected web of resources. This degree of change session will focus on how roles,
responsibilities, opportunities and challenges will change in this new environment.
