HRI’s Top 10 Health Industry Issues
Submitted By Anonymous, Created 12/11/2014 - 11:28
- Do-it-yourself healthcare: US physicians and consumers are ready to embrace a dramatic expansion of the high-tech, personal medical kit
- Leap from mobile app to medical device: A proliferation of approved and portable medical devices in patients’ homes, and on their phones
- Balancing privacy and convenience: Patients adopt digital tools and services that gather and analyze health information
- High-cost patients spark innovations: Aging boomers and patients with co-morbidities will foster creative care delivery and management systems
- Putting a price on positive outcomes: Increasing demand for new evidence and definitions of positive health outcomes
- Open everything to everyone: Real-world patient outcomes and financial relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical companies
- 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
- Scope of practice expands: Physician “extenders” are becoming the first line of care for many patients
- Redefining well-being for millennials: Employers and insurers look for fresh ways to engage, retain and attract the next generation of health consumers
- Partner to win: Joint ventures, open collaboration platforms and non-traditional partnerships will push healthcare toward new competitive strategies
Source: PwC
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