Dr. Bruce Bagley: 10 Trends in U.S. Health Care Delivery for 2014

1. The Need to Change Your Stripes – Health professionals need to embrace changing roles, responsibilities and relationships with others
2. Focus on Wellness and Prevention – More emphasis on wellness, prevention and a comprehensive approach to the everyday needs
3. The Community of Care – Our communities must be able to support and promote healthy lifestyles
4. Access Redefined – We need to redefine access so that when someone calls the health care provider, the conversation starts with, “How can we help you?”
5. The Cultural, Social and Economic Context of Health – Optimum outcomes for patients must begin to incorporate the context in which they live
6. StrategicDistribution of the Work – The part of primary care practices’ everyday work that relates to “rules-based” decision-making should be moved from physicians to other members of the care team
7. Care is About Relationships, Not Locations – To maximize outcomes for patients, we must promote and enhance continuous healing relationships with providers and care teams
8. Risk-Stratified Care Management – Risk-stratified care management and care coordination for those who need the most help will be the new required competency for most primary care practices
9. Consolidation, Integration and Market Forces – Tremendous pressure for consolidation and aggregation of health care providers and services will continue near-term
10. The Ultimate Imperative – Someone else is already succeeding in everything that you think is not possible

Source: The Lund Report
Source URL: http://www.thelundreport.org/resource/10_trends_in_us_health...

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