Stuff I can't unhear from NextMed - gallery of quotes

This is the fourth in a?5-part blog series?of reflections, insights and takeaways from the?NextMed Health?summit in San Diego in March 2023. NextMed Health is the annual convening edge-walkers and curated faculty who provide 'state of the state' updates on where health, healthcare & medicine are at, and are going, enabled by exponential technology.

This article captures verbatim quotes from the brilliant Faculty. You can't unhear this stuff after you hear it! As I was ferociously taking notes while also tweeting, I did not always have the context, but most quotes speak for themselves. This gallery of quotes captures the essence of the messages conveyed over the 4-day event.

"My iPhone 14 is already antique"

"We are still in the era of 'Weak AI', which is just a simulation of intelligence"

"We make time smarter"

"Hospitals are the dinosaurs of our health systems"

"The future is healthcare at home augmented by digital health"

"This will make prevention save $Trillions of money and make prevention more profitable than disease"

"The competitor of Netflix? Sleep"?

"You can glean many insights from small data"

"Will soon get full MRI scan at CVS (drug store), read by AI radiologists"

"We have plaque on the Arteries of our health system" re: enormous technical debt that we carry with all the disconnected systems.?It we start to mindlessly apply chat GPT it will just add more technical debt.

"We are in an age where technologies that were unthinkable before are becoming reality"

"That's 660M years thrown back into the pot of human creativity" - on how Deep Mind predicted how 220M (of the total 230M) proteins in humans fold ... it used to take 2-3 years per protein for a human scientist to do that

"Our new job description today is curators of ecosystems" = plecosystems

"Longevity = making it to your natural expiration date with the fewest issues/interventions along the way"

"We’re heading to 6 generation families and 5 generation workforces" - on our aging society, and how there are more people alive >65 yrs old today than in the cumulative history of our species

"Dementia will be the economic, social and spiritual sinkhole that brings down society" - similar to what we though Polio would do when our only tool was iron lungs

"For every $1 we spend caring for Alzheimer's we spend less than half a penny on research on the disease"

For additional reading

As noted above, this was the 4th in a 5-blog series on NextMed Health 2023. For other articles, check out my other posts:

#1?Cross-cutting themes from NextMed Health?- 12 themes that spanned multiple talks and sessions [LINK]

#2?New Lexicon for the exponential era of healthcare?- language I picked up that will shape our emerging lexicon for the future of health [LINK]

#3?Metaphors & analogs as explainers?- ways that NextMed faculty use metaphors as tools to translate and simplify important concepts [LINK]

#5 Cool companies at NextMed?- a snapshot of a few of the hundreds of companies we saw that are toolmakers for the future of health [LINK]

For a recap of the sessions, including links to videos from the live stream,?check out this summary of NextMed Health?prepared by Canadian doc?Philip Edgcumbe.