By Gregg A. Masters, MPH
Today I drove north some 150 miles or so from San Diego to the Century City Plaza Hotel complex in Los Angeles on the suitably named ‘avenue of the stars’ adjacent to the Fox entertainment empire. The Sunday session at FutureMed hosted at the Hotel Del Coronado was infectious and upbeat with as usual forward thinking and doing entrepreneurs, scientists and the people who love, follow or aspire to be one of them. 
The day was packed with inspirational speakers and concluded with a keynote than none other than San Diego’s digital health superstar and agitator for the creative destruction of medicine – Eric Topol, MD.
For a tweetchat dashboard of the action at FutureMed – the event runs through this Wednesday – click here. For the program agenda and schedule click here, while the transcript to date can be accessed here and the digital dashboard chronicling reach of the footprint is here.
Meanwhile here we are at the current sessions of the 4th National ACO Congress and the 1st ‘Health Insurance Exchange Summit West’ which will no doubt be a annual affair for the near term – given the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov and the contrasted ‘successful’ reviews of those state administered exchanges in California aka Covered California and Kentucky aka Kynect.
As I sat in the audience at FutureMed hearing the passion of the presentors I regularly kept asking myself, ok this is all awesome stuff – from 3D printing/manufacturing of just about everything from organs to guitars, but how does it assimilate and disrupt our house of cards if not ‘calcified hairball’ (per Esther Dyson) of a healthcare financing and delivery system? And coincident as it turns out, the session I am attending for the next two days represent the best and brightest – if you will, of the aggregators if not orchestrators of the sustainable healthcare ecosystem envisioned by the triple aim?
We shall see! I will be monitoring both event hashtags via #ACOcongress and #FutureMed – and so can you.
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