# Keynote: American Medical Group Association Annual Conference, Phoenix – Healthcare 2020
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Jim Carroll delivered the closing keynote address at the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) 2013 Institute for Quality Leadership Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, speaking to physician group practice executives on the technological transformation coming to medicine. The talk, titled “Healthcare 2020: The Transformative Trends That Will REALLY Define Our Future,” explored how an extraordinary wave of scientific and technological acceleration — genomics, connected health devices, mobile diagnostic applications, and real-time data analytics — was building toward a fundamental reinvention of how healthcare was delivered. Carroll’s central argument was that the future of medicine had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with science: the real revolution was the shift from a system that waited until patients were sick to one that understood what was going wrong long in advance. A post-keynote interview was published in the peer-reviewed journal American Health & Drug Benefits, underlining the scientific credibility of his projections.

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Source: https://jimcarroll.com/2013/09/keynote-american-medical-group-association-annual-conference-phoenix-healthcare-2020/