Question and Answer Session

The question and answer session following the Health, Data, and People panel covered a wide range of topics including supply chain analysis, economic modeling, and approaches to innovation. One participant offered the memorable observation that "innovation fights against system decay," connecting the creative destruction of economic theory to cybernetic concepts of entropy and homeostasis.

Discussion also explored "sense and respond" approaches to organizational management and the integration of natural resource considerations into economic models. Panelists and audience members acknowledged that systemic change in healthcare and resource management requires fundamentally evolving our economic thinking, moving beyond static models toward the dynamic, feedback-driven frameworks that Wiener's cybernetics provides.