Trend: Healthcare will become more efficient (when it has to).
John Sharp, who writes the eHealth Blog, reports on a speech by Bill Crounse, MD, of Microsoft at the Emerging Technologies and Healthcare Innovations Congress.
Link: HealthNex: Healthcare Trends to Watch and eHealth Implications.
John Sharp sees four crises:
- out of control costs
- unaffordable insurance
- consumer demand
- healthcare worker demand
He then proposes The end of health insurance as we know it - a.ka., health savings accounts
Information everywhere – home monitoring, pervasive use of new devices Commoditization of healthcare services – retail medicine to concierge Dumbing-down the profession – labor shortages resulting in more low skill employees A flattening of the world of healthcare – information technology enabling global healthcare and medical tourism.
Worldwide Healthcare trends
Posted by: Srikanth | June 08, 2007 at 07:09 AM