# Keynote: Delta Dental of Missouri FutureFocus 2013 &#8211; Rethinking Wellness and the Future of Healthcare
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Jim Carroll delivered the closing keynote address at Delta Dental of Missouri&#8217;s FutureFocus 2013 conference in April 2013, speaking to an audience of HR executives, corporate benefits managers, and health plan administrators on the coming transformation of employer-sponsored health and wellness programs. The talk, &#8220;Rethinking Wellness: The Future of Healthcare,&#8221; challenged benefits professionals to look past incremental improvements to existing wellness models and engage with the structural disruption coming to healthcare delivery &#8212; from mobile health monitoring and real-time biometrics to predictive analytics tools that would allow employers and insurers to intervene long before a health crisis developed. Carroll argued that the healthcare system of 2020 would look radically different from today&#8217;s: driven by data, personalized by science, and shifted fundamentally from a sick-care model to a genuine wellness model. Delta Dental subsequently produced a highlight reel video from the session, reflecting the strong resonance the talk had with the audience.

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Source: https://jimcarroll.com/2013/04/keynote-delta-dental-of-missouri-futurefocus-2013-rethinking-wellness-and-the-future-of-healthcare/