As the year ends, athenaInsight sat down with three healthcare experts to share their predictions for the coming year. A clear trend emerged: in 2020, the tide of value-based care will continue. To that end, the nexus of care will shift, employers and payers will drive innovation, and technology will pave the way for better risk analysis and patient outreach. According to Koustav Chatterjee, digital health industry analyst at Frost and Sullivan, "2020 is going to be a landmark year when, for the very first time, both payers and providers will embrace full-blown value-based care strategies." As regulatory requirements become clearer and more stable, and data is finally showing a tangible ROI, the transition to risk and quality-based programs will continue unabated.

It isn't often that one car completely dominates the conversation at a major international auto show. And it isn't often that one car so completely symbolizes a company's return from the brink of ruin. But that exact confluence happened in January 2015 in Detroit, at the North American International Auto Show, the biggest car show of them all. The unveiling of Ford's new GT supercar was the culmination of a year of tantalizing rumors, which had begun to take shape in the fall of 2014 and then built momentum. The speculation went something like this: with 2016 right around the corner, the Ford Motor Company was seriously contemplating a return to what practically everyone in racing considers the automaker's moment of purest glory on the track, Le Mans in '66. Everyone did the math: 2016 minus 1966 was fifty years.

I ran the 100 meter dash, and broke across the finish line in record time. As I danced around in victory, my enthusiasm was not diminished by the fact that I was 8-years-old, and my only opponents had been my asthmatic neighbor and a few action figures that hadn't moved from the starting line. By this metric, Assassin's Creed has also won a gold medal. It's the best video game movie I've seen to date, but as everyone knows, that's quite a low bar. Stacked up against the larger world of weird sci-fi outings and action blockbusters, it just doesn't hold up, and yes, once again we still are stuck at merely "decent," rather than becoming that eternally out-of-reach "great" video game movie adaptation.