Vasant Ramaswamy
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A network of experts in global healthcare
Is it possible to build a global brains trust of experts in healthcare policy, public healthcare design and healthcare delivery - covering the entire gamut from control of disease to outcomes measurement? Can such a network be harnessed effectively to address the issues of global healthcare from the widely prevalent to the obscure by building on human knowledge than bureaucratic reinvention of wheels in each country? For example, many Asian countries like India are beginning to follow the US example of HMOs and will wait to learn the costly errors of that path. China's idea of "disease … Read More
July 23, 2008
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Re: Re: Re: What is the single most important invention that shaped the last mil
Here is one of the best responses to a slightly larger time frame from Freeman Dyson - "The most important invention of the last two thousand years was hay. In the classical world of Greece and Rome and in all earlier times, there was no hay. Civilization could exist only in warm climates where horses could stay alive through the winter by grazing. Without grass in winter you could not have horses, and without horses you could not have urban civilization. Some time during the so-called dark ages, some unknown genius invented hay, forests were turned into meadows, hay was reaped and stor… Read More
January 10, 2008
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What is the single most important invention that shaped the last millennium?
What is your pick and why? Read More
January 7, 2008
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What will be the next big discontinuity in healthcare?
Will we eradicate disease and conquer aging or be deluged with new pestilences that will redefine life? Will chemistry dominate therapeutics or will it be genomics and biologics? Will the largest life sciences company in 2030 be IBM or Pfizer or something else entirely? Read More
January 7, 2008
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Is eternal life possible for human beings?
Can we contemplate living for ever given the technological advances in genomics, biotechnology and regenerative medicine? Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Ray Kurzweil and others believe we can - Dr. de Grey of Cambridge University believes the first one who will live to a 1000 is perhaps 60 years old now! Any takers? Read More
January 7, 2008
I founded and run a global lifesciences & healthcare information services company, Scriplogix, from New York. As a team we believe that over the next decade or two, life sciences and healthcare, will undergo radical and discontinuous changes across the spectrum - from the way we think of life and death, to the way we deliver care and track outcomes. We believe that America will be in the forefront of such shifts. Our goal is to help make such change happen.
