Technology and Partnerships Will Bring Expertise Closer to Home by Andrew N
AMERICAN HOSPITALS REPORT 2018 Future Trends in U.S. Medical Innovation: Technology and Partnerships Will Bring Expertise Closer to Home By Andrew N. Garman, PsyD, Executive Director, U.S. Cooperative for International Patient Programs (USCIPP); CEO, National Center for Healthcare Leadership; Professor, Department of Health Systems Management, Rush University; Tricia Johnson, PhD, Research Director, USCIPP; Professor and Associate Chair of Research & Education, Department of Health Systems Management, Rush University; Director, Rush Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Value; Jarrett Fowler, MPPA, Senior Manager, USCIPP; Callie Lambert, Research Manager, USCIPP he U.S. has a longstanding reputation to continue expanding disproportionately to over time it will increasingly take the form for advancing the science necessary overall population growth. of incentives for consumers to get their care to develop and sustain medical As average life expectancy increases, the from providers who can demonstrate they are breakthroughs. Over many decades, ratio of working-age adults to retirement- delivering better outcomes at lower costs. Tsubstantial investments from the National age adults will continue to shrink. The ratio Institutes of Health as well as charitable of healthcare professionals to retirement Trend #4 - Medical innovation will foundations have led American academic age adults will also continue to decline, and accelerate – and costs along with it medical centers and health systems to become health systems will need to find ways to The group of innovations collectively known hubs of medical innovation, attracting patients evolve their care delivery models to address as ‘precision medicine’ holds promise for rapid from many countries who travel for advanced these greater needs with fewer people.
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