“Your care, your way:” Learning from the Philips Future Health Index 2023
Consider the key drivers of supply and demand in health care, globally, right now: On the medical delivery supply side, the shortage of staff is a limiting factor to continuing to deliver care based on the usual work-flows and payment models. On the demand side, patients are taking on more demanding roles as consumers with high expectations for service, convenience, and safe care delivered closer to home — or at home. This dynamic informs The Future Health Index 2023 report from Philips, launched this week at HIMSS 2023. This is the eighth annual global FHI report, with detailed country-specific analyses to
More Consumers Expect Health/Care Companies to Be Purpose-Ful Versus All Other Industries
If your organization serves health consumers, patients, and caregivers, and you’re asking them to spend money on your services or products, then you’ll do well to be clear on your values and sense of purpose. In the latest Ipsos look into the future of “Purpose,” we find that consumers look most to health and pharmacy companies for shared values, compared with other industries people patronize such as food and grocery, technology and banks. To understand where Ipsos is coming from on this aspect of ESG, we’ll start with their territory map
In 2023, We Are All Health Consumers in Search of Value
Every health/care industry stakeholder will be in search of value in 2023, I explain in my latest post written on behalf of Medecision. In this essay, I forecast what’s ahead for hospitals, digital health innovators and investors, employers, pharma, and patients-as-consumers — all firmly focused on value in the new year. “Inflation may make consumers and the healthcare system sicker,” Deloitte expects, signaling a sort of “unrest” for the healthcare ecosystem. One of the most telling data points I include in my assessment of 2023 comes from GSR Ventures, which polled major health care investors on
Fidelity Investments healthcare industry team asked me to brainstorm the future of employer-sponsored health benefits from personalizing workers' health benefits journeys to their mental health and how to pay for health care -- including specialty drugs costs. Here's a link to the many insights the Fidelity team gleaned from me and other collaborators.
Grateful to collaborate with Christopher Caudle who asked me to share perspectives on how I use LinkedIn and social media to create impact and grow the wonderful community of diverse voices in the expanding health/care ecosystem. I'm thrilled to share this creative sandbox with several voices I consider friends in the field, and others whom I've respected along my journey -- especially Rebecca Love, John Whyte, and Dr. Stefan Buttigieg, with many others for whom I'm a fan-girl.
The team at EHT DAO curated their list of the Top 150 Healthtech Exponentialists, as they explain, "great professionals and friends, who are leading digital health, applying exponential technologies, around the world, with the purpose Health becomes a reality!" I'm named in the Top 10, humbled!, among inspiring folks like Dr. Kevin Pho, Dr. Bertalan Mesko, Mandi Bishop, Igor Korolev, among other colleagues....