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Healthcare in 2020, From Ogilvy PR

From Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide's "Fresh Influence" blog, here are  "7 Predictions For How Healthcare Will Evolve By 2020."

Behavioral targeting, auto-triage, health care in your local supermarket, personalized video, health tourism, gaming-enabled health transformation, brain-computer interfaces...

It's an intelligent list of thought-provoking "What-if's..?"
"Reading through the scenarios, (it's) easy to imagine a distant future where technology and healthcare finally begin to work together to create a better world of care for us all.  (The) post highlights seven of the most powerful ideas from the report along with some potential implications for anyone in marketing and communications. 
To request the full report containing 20 predictions, send an email to 202020@ogilvy.com. Mention that you read about the report on the Fresh Influence blog.

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