Trend Longevity Rating
matured and remains highly relevant, even where the details changed
How this trend held up
The specific gap the book measured — slow EHR adoption in low-income and minority communities — has largely closed; U.S. hospital EHR adoption is now near-universal, driven by the same federal incentive programs the book described. But the divide didn't disappear, it relocated. The pandemic-era shift to telehealth exposed a broadband- and device-access gap that mapped onto the same populations the book flagged as underserved, and the current frontier — access to AI-assisted diagnostics and remote monitoring — is showing early signs of the same pattern. The book's core warning, that health technology's benefits reliably reach the privileged first, held up; the specific technology in question kept changing.
Every past trend prediction is re-reviewed and graded with a Trend Longevity Rating, measuring how much each originally curated trend still matters years later.
