Dispatch from Davos: Hospitals of the future will not be traditional hospitals

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Dispatch from Davos: Hospitals of the future will not be traditional hospitals

It is easier to move health care to a phone than it is to move hospitals to remote communities. In fact, I believe we must get care to where patients are instead of getting patients to where care is located. That is a revolution that is starting now. To help power this new disruptive platform we will need a new clinical workforce. Today’s medical education tends to suck the creativity out of students in pursuit of a century-old model of making doctors into robots. Today we need doctors who can interpret computer analysis and make sense of it for real people. We need doctors to answer the question “What does this mean?”