LinkedIn September 21, 2017
Frans van Houten

At yesterday’s Washington Post Live Transformers:Health event, I was pleased to briefly reflect on five themes I believe citizens, patients, healthcare providers, industry watchers and companies must wrestle with if we are to fully realize the potential of digitization, connectivity and data.

Each summed up by one word!

Here’s a highlights reel from a great event. And here follows the transcript of my full presentation:

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How often is it that we hear about the jaw-dropping costs of healthcare?

In the US alone, we’re talking about over $3.3 trillion annually – more than $10,000 per person or, put another way, 18% of GDP. With more than four billion annual prescriptions dispensed along the way. That’s just the story in the...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Employer, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, HHS, Investments, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Self-insured, Value Based
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