In the mid- and late-1990s the Military Healthcare System (MHS) undertook an introspective look at healthcare and where it would be 25 years later. That project started out being called MHS-2020 and grew into MHS-2025.

Dr. (then Rear Admiral) Bill Rowley was a key leader in that effort.  He and his team at the Institute for Alternative Futures have developed 14 forecasts describing what healthcare might look like in 2039. These particular forecasts were written for a MEDCOM effort to look into the future so we might better plan for it.

• Boundaries and Time in 2039
• Chronic Diseases in 2039
• Energy and Resource Availability in 2039
• Environmental Stress in 2039
• Facilities and Care Venues in 2039
• Future Disease Threats in 2039
• Geopolitics in 2039
• Globalization Effects in 2039
• Healthcare Financing in 2039
• Keeping People Healthy in 2039
• Military Medicine in 2039
• Professional Roles in 2039
• Societal Changes in 2039
• Technological Advances in 2039

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