Healthcare IT Trends

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Healthcare Information Technology

Trends and Opportunities

David Edgerton, Jr.Healthcare.mn

February 3, 2014

Topics

Healthcare IT Industry

Trends

The Opportunities

The Healthcare IT Industry

Health care is the largest sector of the U.S. economy ($ 2.8 trillion in 2012)

The health care IT market is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 16 percent, reaching $ 53.8 billion worldwide by 2014 (MarketResearch.com, 2009).

Healthcare Industry Structure (Gartner)

Incentives for Change in Healthcare

The pressure to cut healthcare costs

Demand to integrate healthcare systems

Higher rate of return on investment in healthcare systems

Financial support and incentives from the U.S. government

Government initiatives, the rise in the aging population

Healthcare IT Spend by Vendor (Gartner)

Percentage of IT Spending in Healthcare (Gartner)

Current IT Trends in Healthcare

The electronic health record market, meanwhile, hit $20 billion in 2012 (Kalorama Information, 2013)

The global mHealth app services market is set to reach $26 billion by 2017 (research2guidance, 2013).

Mobile Networking - 3 million patients will be monitored via mobile networks by 2016

Desktop Virtualization – 70% of hospitals identified thin or zero (ultra-thin) clients as their preferred endpoint.

Mobility at The Patient Bedside – 66% of doctors use iPads or other tablets for medical purposes, up from 45% a year earlier.

Data Will Continue to Play A Role – 10% of hospitals implemented data analytics tools in 2011. 50% are predicted to do so by 2016.

Themes for New Market Opportunities in Healthcare IT

Health Hyper Efficiency

The Personalized Health Movement

Digital Peer-to-Peer Healthcare

Health Hyper Efficiency

Empathetic Interfaces: Incorporate more intuitive design and processes aimed at making digital tools more responsive to emotional needs, or more human-like.

Unhealthy Surveillance: New surveillance technologies combine large amounts of data and raise significant privacy and security concerns.

Predictive Psychohistory: Big Data are increasingly being used to make large- and small-scale predictions about individual and population health.

The Over-Quantified Self: As the volume of clinical and health information collected from wearable computers, passive sensors, and more increases, consumers will struggle to find true actionable value beyond "feel good stats" in this flood of data

Multicultural Misalignment: Health technologies will be less effective if they are not optimized to account for differences in age, ethnicity, culture, and more. A range of organizations and businesses will work to provide unique and effective digital health tools to diverse populations.

Micro-Health Rewards: Inspired by federal legislation and a deeper understanding of behavioral science, insurers, corporations, health providers, and others will apply game theory to encourage people to adopt and sustain healthy behaviors by offering them tangible rewards (or punishments) as incentives.

Virtual Counseling: Seeking emotional and logistical support, people forge one-to-one relationships online to offer assistance with navigating the new health insurance landscape, provide virtual moral support, "sponsor" one another, and share unique knowledge about conditions, ailments, and caregiving.

CareHacking: Forced to increasingly take responsibility for their own care in a complex system, digitally savvy health consumers combine information from doctors, the Web, electronic medical records, and other sources to "hack" the health system in an effort to educate themselves, navigate loopholes, and ultimately get better, lower cost, and faster care for themselves and those they love.

Great Books on Healthcare IT and Trends

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