This situation has to change, and HOTs (health-oriented telecommunications) are likely to be a major part of that change, helping to bring Americans a far better state of health for much less money.
Predictor: Flower, Joe
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, Joe Flower explains the types of changes that could come in health care through the use of networked computing. Flower writes:”We are far from the longest-lived people, with our infant-mortality rate 22nd in the world and our maternal-mortality rate 26th. In 1990 I gave what I thought was an alarmist speech at a health care conference, predicting that our health-care costs would hit $1 trillion by 1995. I was wrong. It hit that number in 1993 and it’s going up at a rate of $100 billion per year. This situation has to change, and HOTs (health-oriented telecommunications) are likely to be a major part of that change, helping to bring Americans a far better state of health for much less money.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Medical/Professional
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: The Other Revolution in Health Care: Leave Hillary and Bill Out of It … The Health Care System is Going to Change Drastically Over the Next Decade
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/healthcare_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney