The original call
Original year: 2019
2026 assessment
Scorecard verdict: Hit, and accelerating
Hit, and accelerating fast. Continuous glucose monitors went mainstream and over-the-counter. Implantable and ingestible sensors are in clinical use. AI-driven risk dashboards now flag sepsis, deterioration, and chronic-disease risk in real time inside hospital systems. The “disease action planning” framing — getting ahead of the condition instead of chasing it — is exactly the language health systems are adopting now. We aren’t all the way to 2030 yet, but every piece of this is already on the table.