The “Strategy for the Future of Health” book is the result of ongoing communication between the editor and chapter authors, with the annual Future of Health Technology Summit™ being a pivotal event maintaining the momentum. It is a “strategic dialog” between the strongest and most advanced voices in the field of medicine and technology.

This book is a snapshot of the constantly changing horizon of ideas and technologies, which I hope will be useful to decision makers involved in health-related resource allocation. It can be compared to an impressionistic painting – it will make a different sense depending on the reader, but I hope that it is rich and diverse enough to provide direction in goal formation – the most important part of strategy development.

Chapters of Strategy for the Future of Health are grouped into six sections:

1. Goals and Synthesis

2. Health Care Strategy for the Future – General Directions

3. Strategy for the Future of e-Health – Technologically Connected Consumers & Machines

4. Life Extension Strategy – Longer Lives and New Life Forms

5. Nano-Strategy – Extending Human Potential with Nanomedicine

6. Strategy for General Wellness – Emotional and Physical Fitness This book commemorates 40th anniversary of man landing on the Moon with the hope that by 2039 we will be able to “land nanorobot Chromallocyte on the liver”.

Renata G. Bushko, Bushko@fhti.org

Editor, Future of Health Technology book series

Founder, Future of Health Technology Institute, www.fhti.org