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Dr. Bauer is a nationally recognized health futurist and medical economist. He is a partner in the management consulting practice of ACS Healthcare Solutions (Dearborn, MI), a leading provider of outsourcing, information technology, and business solutions to the health care industry. In his numerous publications and presentations, he forecasts the future of health care and describes practical, creative approaches to improving the health care delivery system.
Dr. Bauer has published more than 145 articles, books, Web pages, and videos on health care delivery. He speaks frequently to national audiences about key trends in health care, medical science, technology, reimbursement, information systems, public policy, and creative problem-solving. Dr. Bauer is often quoted in the national press and writes regularly for periodicals that cover the business of health care.
The technologies and knowledge of 21st century genetics and its enabling technologies are changing medical science faster than it has ever been changed before. Health care in five years will be very different from what it is today.
Winner of several awards for excellence in teaching scientific subjects, Dr. Bauer presents an understandable and richly-illustrated introduction to the devices, therapies, and information systems that hospitals and clinicians will need to keep up with the emerging practice of genetic medicine.
He also explores strategic and ethical issues that health care leaders will be expected to address, and he describes how they can benefit from personalized predictive medicine as individuals. This presentation is as new, different, and exciting as the clinical revolution it describes.