In 2023, We Are All Health Consumers in Search of Value
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 29 December 2022 in Connected health, Consumer experience, Digital health, Future of health care, Health Consumers, Health costs, Health Economics, Health ecosystem, Telehealth, Transparency, Value based health, Virtual health
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
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