Healthcare is advancing more swiftly by the year with new technologies, treatment options and artificial intelligence models hitting hospitals across the world.
With the acceleration of advancements, it is hard to imagine how the industry will change. While some believe racial equity challenges might remain, others expect personalized care by genomics to be the standard and that there will be medications that will prevent disease before it takes root.
Becker’s asked eight leaders to speculate on what healthcare might look like in 2123:
Tony Ambrozie. Senior Vice President and Chief Digital and Information Officer of Baptist Health South Florida (Coral Gables): One hundred years is a very long time to predict anything given the exponential rate of developments in technology, bioengineering and medicine. But I think we will see a number of trends that will probably happen in the next 50 years or less:
— Healthcare and well-being will be personalized to the extreme, driven by personal genomics as well as continuous and comprehensive real-time monitoring based on a variety of sensors, worn or implanted, as well as fixed diagnostics devices in homes and other locations.