CONVERGENCE
CONNECTING THE HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE TO HOME
The combination of 10,000 Americans turning 65 daily, an 800,000-person clinical workforce cliff by 2027, AI systems hungry for continuous patient data, and CMS's structural mandate toward value-based payment creates an inflection point that cannot be managed within the current system.
The platform that can reach patients at home, engage them in their own care, and translate raw signals into clinical intelligence will become the load-bearing infrastructure of the next era of healthcare.
This is the story of why now, how it works, and what the world looks like when it does.
THE AUTHOR'S VANTAGE POINT
Kent Dicks has lived this transition for nearly two decades — not as an observer, but as a builder. He founded MedApps in 2006, creating IoT healthcare infrastructure before the term existed, building the first wireless health monitoring platform — the HealthPal — with no reimbursement codes and no obvious market. He walked into investor meetings carrying a prototype he had built from clay and wood in his garage. He sold MedApps to Alere (a Fortune 500 company) in 2012 for 30x revenue, ran a platform serving 10 million patients across 15 call centers in 100+ countries, and founded Life365 in 2016 in deliberate anticipation of the conditions that now define the market.
These are not anecdotes. They are the field data of a practitioner who has learned more from failure and early timing than from any success.
thought pieces
The articles below distill twenty years of building connected healthcare infrastructure into a single, coherent argument. Taken together, they articulate Kent's core philosophy: that healthcare's transformation from facility-centered to home-centered care is not a trend but an inevitability — and that the companies who built the foundational infrastructure before the market was ready are the ones who will own the transformation when it arrives.
