American Hospital Association October 30, 2018
Expect massive vertical consolidation in health care. Payers, providers, suppliers and pharmacies will be under one corporate umbrella. Health insurance as we know it will largely be replaced by subscription-based plans that provide patients with unlimited telehealth consultations along with wellness, fitness and nutrition information.
Some of these trends have already begun, but they will be fully entrenched a decade from now. That’s the vision futurist Michael Rogers laid out at last week’s HIMSS Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum. And he forecasts some big changes by the late 2020s in how most care will be delivered.
Healthcare IT News reports Rodgers believes that, rather than being delivered in doctors’ offices or hospitals, most...