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In This Issue     Feature: Empowered Consumers: The New Dawn of Healthcare   Contortions of a Beleaguered System Failed Attempts to Repair Who Pays? Incentive for Change Consumer-Based Solutions Drivers for a Healthcare Revolution Innovation Dominoes View into the Future Consumer Interfaces vs. Healthcare Interfaces Now Is the Time for Change The Democracy of Healthcare Taking Charge of Our Health About Gopal Chopra   Upcoming SNS Events & Media Links   In Other House News…   How to Subscribe May I Share This Newsletter? About SNS About the Publisher Where’s Mark?

By Gopal Chopra, M.D.

 

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Listen to Dave Meyer’s interview of Mark Anderson on National Public Radio, discussing “Intellectual Property & China”:  <http://cli.gs/4GZ9bZ>

 

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Sign up now for the 8th Annual

 

Future in Review (FiRe) 2010 Conference

 

May 11-14, at Terranea, Palos Verdes

 

“The best technology conference in the world.” – The Economist.

 

Including:

 

Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect, Microsoft, on “Emerging Platforms: Microsoft’s Roles”;

 

John Hagel and John Seely Brown, Deloitte Center for the Edge, and authors of The Power of Pull, on Pull Domination in  Emerging Platforms;

 

and John Cramer, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Physics, University of Washington,

originator of the Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, and author of Twistor, on Time Reversal and the Future.

 

 

 

This year’s theme: “Emerging Platforms”: Handhelds, Smartphones, Media Players, Pads, e-Books, Netbooks, Smartbooks, and (Repairing) the Cloud.

Other Participants and Speakers include (but are not limited to):

 

Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO, NVIDIA

Paul Jacobs, CEO, Qualcomm

Eric Darmstaedter, CEO, ClearFuels Technology

Chris Hancock, CEO, AARNet

 

and:

 

Ricardo Salinas

Chairman of the Board
Grupo Salinas

 

Larry Smarr

Director
California Institute for Telecommunications

and Information Technology, UCSD

 

William Harris

President and CEO
Science Foundation Arizona

 

Jim Sink

CEO
Avatar Reality

Gary Rieschel

Founder and Managing Director
Qiming Venture Partners

 

Balan Nair

CTO
Liberty Global

 

Nancy Stagliano

CEO
CytomX Therapeutics LLC

 

Daniel Lynch

Chairman
Lynch Enterprises

 

Patrick Sullivan

CEO and President
Hoana

 

Kevin Surace

President and CEO
Serious Materials Inc.

 

Mark Thiele

Director R&D Business Operations
VMware

 

Bradford Wurtz

CEO
Power Assure

 

Adrian Steckel

Vice Chairman
SkyFiber

 

Paul Sonderegger

Chief Strategist
Endeca

 

David Kirkpatrick

Senior Editor
FORTUNE

 

Om Malik

Founder
Gigaom

 

William Phelps

Executive Director
Accenture

 

Thomas Aidan Curran

Senior Vice President

Deutsche Telekom AG

 

Sailesh Chutani

CEO

Mobisante Inc.

 

Joe Burton

VP/CTO

Cisco Systems

 

Ty Carlson

Architect

Microsoft

 

And many more ---

 

 

Many thanks to our generous FiRe 2010 sponsors:

 

 

 

 

  

Publisher’s Note: I first met Gopal Chopra by telephone, and soon after, at our annual SNS New York Predictions Dinner. Gopal is a perfect SNS Overachiever, appearing to cram five careers into a single lifetime, including those of practicing physician and entrepreneur. 

 

This week the administration has put forward its own version of Healthcare 2.0, and we’ll see what results. I tend to agree with Gopal: grooming the monster means you still have a monster when you’re done. In this rather eloquent piece on our Fixing Healthcare thread, Gopal explains a different and, I believe, more credible way out of the mess we call healthcare in the U.S. 

 

In addition to his lifetime experience inside the system, Gopal brings a refreshing honesty and objectivity to the conversation which I think members will find, unfortunately, unique in their reading on this subject. Although this is a long piece, I recommend reading it through, and I expect that when readers are finished they will finally feel like they “get it” on the issue of Fixing Healthcare.  – mra.