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PwC: Top Health Industry Issues Of 2016
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 12/14/2015 - 14:48
- High-profile mergers and acquisitions likely will continue in 2016, with regulators taking center stage in the debate over how consolidation impacts consumers.
- Reminiscent of the proverbial story of Goldilocks, the search is on for a drug pricing formula that is “just right.”
- Thanks to technology and shifts in financial incentives, care will begin to move into the palms of consumers’ hands, providing care anywhere, anytime.
- As security breaches become more common and costly, attention shifts to buttressing the security of medical devices.
- Shouldering higher deductibles, consumers seek help managing their health spending with fresh tools and services developed by players new and old.
- Employers and healthcare organizations eye behavioral healthcare as key to keeping costs down, productivity up and consumers healthy.
- As payment shifts to value-based models, health systems will pursue lower-cost settings more aggressively than before while employing creative approaches to distributing care.
- New databases will allow industry players to analyze data from many sources in novel ways, unlocking insights embedded in the reams of information being collected about consumers.
- Biosimilars, lower-cost substitutes for branded biologic drugs, are expected to begin to offer some counterweight to rising drug prices in 2016, much as generic drugs did 30 years ago.
- The medical cost mystery, health systems dig in to calculate the true cost of services, an exercise that also can uncover opportunities to become more efficient and improve care.
Source: PwC
Source URL: http://www.pwc.com/us/tophealthissues
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