Feels like the next great American bloom will happen in heathcare somehow
Remember, the tech revolution emerged from the military-industrial complex, with its radars, missiles, and mainframes
The healthcare industrial complex (HIC) is in a state similar to the MIC in the 1950s
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wrote, imo, the current definitive take on the modern American HIC. tldr is that we’ve returned to a medieval system of self-contained fiefs and personal favors with no rational interconnection. meaningness.com/metablog/post-
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Yeah I saw that earlier, and recently experienced it personally a bit
There are some efforts to bring in a semblance of systematicity like
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More likely IMO it will be in synthetic biology as opposed to 'health care' per se, but with same roots in HIC you speak of
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The world needs to evolve to a much, much more peaceful (or truly opposite of war) state before I'd be happy about synthetic biology. After the open source "Design-a-virus" kit comes out, the whole world will have to be organized into an immune system.
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In an age of job automation and extended lifespans, a career in healthcare is one of the safest bets you can make.
Case in point: the healthcare software company Epic, which employs 10K here and is easily the biggest tech success story in Wisconsin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Syst
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The company I'm currently with saved 60,000 lives last year through telestroke programs (remote neurologists and our hospital "robots" for acute care telemedicine). So...yep
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