The New Health Mecca

Posted on | September 26, 2007 | Comments Off on The New Health Mecca

Should we focus our health care spending on “bricks and mortar�? or technology?…Or both?

In this week’s show I look at the growing influx of development dollars into health care. Where is it all coming from? Certainly not the usual places – the medical community, government programs and the like… No, the new money is coming from the private sector – businesses such as Philips and Intel. This week I compare two options for spending in the future as we seek to improve our health care system: One route is traditional bricks and mortar – as evidenced by the news from Grand Rapids, Michigan, recently of a mammoth $1 billion healthcare infrastructure investment there. The other route is innovative medical technology development for the home – the kind that Philips is aggressively pursuing with products such as home defibrillators. Watch my video (embedded in this blog post) or read this week’s transcript to learn more about trends in health care spending and development. Then tell me how YOU feel about this question. What’s the best way to spend our health care dollars? Should we give the Intels and the Philips of the world a bigger role in helping shape our health care future? Post a comment or a video in response here.

Mike Magee