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Healthcare flips from sick care to preventative diagnostic medicine by 2020

A 2008 future call revisited in Jim Carroll's 2026 Healthcare Trends Scorecard.

Healthcare flips from sick care to preventative diagnostic medicine by 2020
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Publish Date2026-09-18
Updated Date2026-09-18
Outcomemiss

The original call

Original year: 2008

2026 assessment

Scorecard verdict: Miss

The science of prediction and prevention advanced, but the healthcare system itself did not flip on the forecast timetable. Carroll explicitly graded this call poorly when 2020 arrived.

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