What Do Steve Jobs, The NEJM and 18 to 29 Year Old’s Have In Common?

Posted on | October 21, 2010 | Comments Off on What Do Steve Jobs, The NEJM and 18 to 29 Year Old’s Have In Common?

Mike Magee

Change is never easy. It always involves breaking through the status quo which of course holds on for dear life. But trend lines sooner or later do force adjustment. This is becoming more and more obvious in health care, troubled with high costs, variable quality and a fundamental locational disconnect – placement of resources and services far away from where the people live their lives and make their health and wellness decisions. If we needed a reminder that health change is near, consider the news, just this week from three different worlds – the worlds of the health consumer, the health provider, and the health technologist. (CONTINUE….)