U.S. Healthcare Providers: Outlook To 2025 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781499358865)

Forget industry norms. They have no relevance to what will be transpiring between now and 2025. "U.S. Healthcare Providers Outlook To 2025" presents the transformative drivers and their implications on payers, insurers, integrated healthcare systems, hospitals, care facilities, physicians, and allied health professionals. The unprecedented convergence of disruptive legislation, regulations, technologies, innovations, alliances, business models, and organizational structures will continue to accelerate the depth and velocity of healthcare industry change through and beyond 2025. Technology will transform how diseases are classified, diagnosed, treated, and managed. Technology-enabled consumerism will transform medical practice. Consumers will move health insurance into a price-driven commodity product. Competition will force pricing transparency and parity by providers. Consumers will fundamentally transform how and where patients are diagnosed, screened, and treated, and how diseases are monitored and managed. They will shift where and how care is delivered. More care will be provided close to home and through the utilization of digital devices and away from the historic hospital complex and physician's office. They will influence product and therapy choices for many products. Consumers will shape the political agenda. Their persistence and compliance with doctors' instructions will migrate to affect physician compensation and, for select products, reimbursement. Patients will become more involved in their healthcare. The importance of the role of the patient and consumerism will increase through and beyond 2025. As a result, industry boundaries and industry norms for virtually every U.S. healthcare industry segment and stakeholder will be upended as providers develop new, disruptive business models to capture market share and profitability - and to ensure their long-term sustainability. U.S. healthcare in 2025 will be radically different than it is today.

Author: Edmund L. Valentine
ISBN-10: 1499358865
ISBN-13: 9781499358865
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/04/2014
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d