Original 2021 statement: Constant bio-connectivity body monitoring, such as done through your mobile device, will forever transform healthcare
What Jim has written about this
From “Daily Inspiration: (Grading My 2014 Predictions About 2025) - “Sometimes you need not be right you just need to be bold!”” (January 2025)
#1 - Cash will have all but disappeared. We already have a generation that has been weaned on PayPal, online transactions, and the Web. With the arrival of ApplePay and other initiatives that transform mobile devices into credit cards, the trend toward the decline of the use of cash will only accelerate. We’ll see the trend pick up speed as we drop payment technology into our cars, bicycles, clothing, and everything else around us (as part of the trend involving “the Internet of Things.”) It’s clear that by 2025 if cash is not pretty well gone, it’s clearly well on its way out. Claude.AI: Cash Disappearance. Grade: Somewhat Correct Analysis: While cash hasn’t completely disappeared, digital payments have indeed become dominant. As of 2023, 46% of global payments were digital, with countries like Sweden reaching 90% cashless transactions. The rise of digital wallets, contactless payments, and cryptocurrencies has significantly reduced cash usage, though complete elimination hasn’t occurred.
#5 - A constant stream of bio-connectivity data drives healthcare decisions. By 2025, most people in the developed world will have 3 or 4 bio-connectivity medical devices linked to them on a 24/7 basis. Some will be small, intrusive chips buried under the skin that constantly monitor medical vital signs such as blood pressure, glucose levels, temperature, oxygenation level, and heartbeat. This data will be beamed and streamed continuously to a massive, anonymous healthcare grid that will constantly analyze the data for patterns, variances, and trends. Such data will routinely help the medical industry discover the outbreak of disease and flu, and predict the emergence of potentially, previously unidentified global or regional health risks. Worldwide, new medical infrastructure will have emerged that will guide political decisions on the best spending patterns to ensure overall societal health in an era of ever-more-scare healthcare support dollars. Claude.AI: Bio-connectivity Medical Devices. Grade: Correct . Analysis: Wearable health technology has exploded. The global medical wearable market reached $21.3 billion in 2023, with devices monitoring everything from heart rate to glucose levels. Apple Watch, Fitbit, and other devices have mainstreamed continuous health monitoring.
#6 - The fastest-growing profession involves people known as ‘personal health concierges.’ At the same time that the bio-connectivity data flood is fed into the health grid, it will be sent to the personal health coach - or concierge — of individual patients. The concierge — who more than likely will have in-depth medical knowledge, generated on a just-in-time basis, will be located in one of the new, Asian/African mega-cities. They’ll work with the patient’s traditional family doctor to help guide the patient through both routine and complex healthcare decisions, activities, and motivations. Claude.AI: Personal Health Concierges. Grade: Somewhat Correct. Analysis: While not exactly as described, telehealth and personal health coaching have grown significantly. The global telehealth market reached $144.2 billion in 2023. AI-powered health assistants and remote health monitoring services have become common.
From “A truly staggering, transformative trend yet to unfold” (September 2008)
Twenty years from now, most people will look back and realize that right about now, we had three huge, transformative trends underway: device connectivity, geo-connectivity, and bio-connectivity
I’ve been writing and speaking about the idea of bio-connectivity and the concept of “hyper-connectivity” for over a decade (before Nortel lamely built a lame marketing campaign around the latter phrase a year ago.) It remains one of the most significant trends that will yet unfold in the health care sector. Our concept of health care delivery will be forever transformed.
From “Trend Report: The Future of Health, Fitness and Wellness!” (July 2012)
It was the perfect timing for such a keynote; through the last year and I half, I’ve been following what I believe to be a fairly aggressive personal fitness regime, with the help of my personal trainer, as well as personally exploring the wealth of new fitness and wellness mobile applications that are flooding the market.
“500 million mobile users, or about 30% of an estimated 1.4 billion smartphone subscribers worldwide, will be using health/fitness apps by 2015. Healthcare in your hands International Herald Tribune, March 2011
Bio-connectivity provides huge opportunity for innovation in the space of healthcare. The same company - Withings — has brought out the Withings iPhone Blood Pressure Monitor — seen on the right. All of a sudden, someone working to manage their blood pressure doesn’t need to rely on pencils and paper to track their progress — it’s automatically captured through the smartphone which is becoming an integral, everyday part of their life.
Read the full pieces on jimcarroll.com:
Daily Inspiration: (Grading My 2014 Predictions About 2025) - “Sometimes you need not be right you just need to be bold!”
A truly staggering, transformative trend yet to unfold
Trend Report: The Future of Health, Fitness and Wellness!