Question

Describe the evolving trend toward greater amount of outpatient/ambulatory care settings in today’s healthcare system and discuss the impact this has had, and continued emphasis on the changing practice of medicine. Provide 300 words.

Answer 1

Ans) Current trends in healthcare that are shaping the industry:
- Getting social.
- Putting patients first.
- Digitalization of healthcare.
- Telemedicine.
- Addiction treatment

Misaligned metrics that have been selectively, clinically or economically, driven need to be balanced in a way that relates to the multiple stakeholders who are now sharing in the outcomes of risk-taking. Patients as consumers, physicians and others as providers, and manufacturers and their supply chain, need to rethink their metrics in a more meaningful way, and with an efficiency-oriented, actionable matrix for alignment toward achieving optimal patient outcomes.

- Trends that will increasingly impact multiple healthcare stakeholders over the next few years include:
• Patients becoming more informed consumers.
• Growth of structured quality measures.
• Revenue-driving consolidation.
• New and alternative provider payment models.
• Specialty drug use driving the cost of care.