HRI’s Top 10 Health Industry Issues

1. Do-it-yourself healthcare: US physicians and consumers are ready to embrace a dramatic expansion of the high-tech, personal medical kit
2. Leap from mobile app to medical device: A proliferation of approved and portable medical devices in patients’ homes, and on their phones
3. Balancing privacy and convenience: Patients adopt digital tools and services that gather and analyze health information
4. High-cost patients spark innovations: Aging boomers and patients with co-morbidities will foster creative care delivery and management systems
5. Putting a price on positive outcomes: Increasing demand for new evidence and definitions of positive health outcomes
6. Open everything to everyone: Real-world patient outcomes and financial relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical companies
7. Getting to know the newly insured: 2015 will be a revelatory year for the US health sector as a portrait of the newly-insured emerges
8. Scope of practice expands: Physician “extenders” are becoming the first line of care for many patients
9. Redefining well-being for millennials: Employers and insurers look for fresh ways to engage, retain and attract the next generation of health consumers
10. Partner to win: Joint ventures, open collaboration platforms and non-traditional partnerships will push healthcare toward new competitive strategies

Source: PwC
Source URL: http://www.pwc.com/us/tophealthissues

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