Healthcare Executive Podcast Scenes From the Future: Emerging Healthcare Trends
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Jan 22, 2026 
Amy Webb, futurist and CEO of Future Today Strategy Group, outlines how decentralized care and at-home sensors move care out of clinics. She explores embedded AI and care orchestration, workforce gaps and robotics, and the need for long-range scenario planning tied to capital cycles. Short-term tech fixes and re-perception as a strategic mindset are also discussed.
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CES Examples Of Physical AI In Health
- Amy Webb describes attending CES and seeing physical AI in healthcare devices like smart sanitary pads and cognition-tracking hats.
- She uses these examples to show how consumer tech is entering everyday health monitoring.
Healthcare Moves Beyond The Hospital
- Decentralization is shifting healthcare from hospitals to everyday devices and homes.
- Physical AI in consumer devices will become new intermediaries between patients and providers.
Plan For Tech Intermediaries Now
- Plan for cross-site care orchestration and new financial models that include device ecosystems.
- Treat large tech companies as potential intermediaries and design partnerships or responses now.
