The Ford Model T, Instagram and Netflix all turned their respective industries on their heads and transformed the way we live our lives forever. But, what do disruptive innovations like these mean for the future of medicine? 

tweetable: It’s important as a health care community that we embrace some of these truly transformative technologies and think about how we can apply them in health care. 

tweetable: My vision for the future of health care is one in which doctors are truly fulfilled in their work and have the time to focus on patients.

Key takeaways

• What makes an innovation or technology disruptive.
• The difference between a linear and exponential pace.
• What it means when a technology jumps on the exponential curve.
• The transformative potential of exponential innovation in the health care sector.
• The impact on the human component of health care.

tweetable: Maybe we can use our existing resources, revisit how we’re using them, focus on technology that really drives sufficiency and innovation in the system―and that’s how we can build capacity to deliver better health care.

• What the challenges are for adopting and implementing new technologies in Canadian health care.
• How to overcome the challenges and embrace innovation.
• What makes for successful health care innovation in Canada.

tweetable: Sometimes experts are the people that can tell you what cannot be done, whereas, a medical student coming into the system―just embrace your naïveté, embrace that you may see things differently, embrace that you may not know what can’t be done, and in that naïveté, go ahead and do it.

• How physicians can benefit from their ever-changing relationship with their patients.
• Why physicians should embrace their new role in the digital future.
• Why empowering patients with technology empowers the whole health care system.
• What the future doctor’s toolkit will look like.
• How to adopt an innovation mindset.

tweetable: Where there is convergence, where two exponential technologies kind of come together, there’s real opportunity for innovation.

Recommended resources

• How a lifelong journey of innovation led to the Pacey Cuff, a Boldly podcast featuring Dr. Jack Pacey, 2017 Joule innovation grant recipient and Joule innovation Council member Dr. Joshua Liu.
• What Is Disruptive Innovation?, from Harvard Business Review, by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald.
• The 6 Ds of Tech Disruption: A Guide to the Digital Economy, from Singularity Hub by Vanessa Bates Ramirez.
• The Patient Will See You Now, a book by Eric Topol.
• 2018 Digital Health Trends, a slide deck by CB insights.
• 2018 Global health care outlook: the evolution of smart health care, a report by Deloitte.
• Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence‎, a book by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb.
• Healthcare Disrupted: Next Generation Business Models and Strategies, a book by Jeff Elton and Anne O'Riordan.
• Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks, a journal article by Andre Esteva, Brett Kuprel, Roberto A. Novoa, Justin Ko, Susan M. Swetter, Helen M. Blau & Sebastian Thrun from Stanford University.
• Google X and the Science of Radical Creativity, an article from the Atlantic by Derek Thompson.