Virtual ER - Know What's Next Video Blog from Daniel Burrus

Twenty years ago, I predicted that when the exponential and predictable progress of processing power, storage, and bandwidth—what I called the three digital accelerators—reached the levels we would have by 2010, we'd start seeing virtual hospitals, which would lower costs, improve efficiency, and ultimately change healthcare. In my latest New York Times best seller Flash Foresight, I wrote that the digital accelerators are now here, and so is the virtual ER.

Of course, a virtual ER can't treat broken legs or emergencies that need hands-on medical procedures. But every day there are a large number of people in U.S. hospital ER waiting rooms who don't need that sort of high-level medical attention.