I was at an all-day event this past Saturday, it was mainly about health issues.
I have two quick key takeaways.
First: Health and medicine are (of course) big business.
Second: The keynote speaker argued vehemently how the healthcare (and pharmaceutical) industries revolve around keeping sick people alive, rather than improving the quality of life [1] for the lives of all people (whether more or less healthy). The result is basically that these industries prolong sickness rather than increasing health.
The reason for this mismatch is easy enough to comprehend: the businesses involved make more money more easily that way, because they can rely on very steady and recurring income.
It is regrettably a sad state of affairs, and yet if people were just to stop and think about it a little bit, they could perhaps solve some of the problems that cause it.
Such insights are quite in line with the central themes of the “Social Business” project (at Socio.BIZ 😉 )
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