2024: Healthcare Insiders Predict The Future

2024: Healthcare Insiders Predict The Future
Forbes, 12/14/23
By Sachin  H. Jain
Can others predict what the future holds for healthcare? To find out, I asked colleagues, friends and other people I admire in the healthcare industry to weigh in with their predictions for 2024. From AI to pharmaceuticals to the cost of care, their viewpoints cover a range of topics. I hope you find their predictions and insights as intriguing as I do.
Editor Note: Article includes 20 topics, including...

1. AI to Bridge the Gaps to Human-Centered Health Care
2. The Hype Around AI Transforming Medicine Will Accelerate While Usage by Clinicians Will Be More Limited
3. Alzheimer’s Imaging and Treatment Will Explode, Even as Impact on Outcomes is Small
4. Response to Workforce Challenges Will See a Rapid Expansion of the Role of Community Health Worker
5. A New Focus on the Economic Fragility of Older Adults
6. Clinical organizations will invest in the clinician experience
7. Value-Based M&A
8. The Privatization of Palliative Care Will Continue
9. Consumerism in Healthcare
10. Health Care Costs as a Percent of GDP Will Go Down
11. Medicaid Becomes the New Third-Rail in American Politics
12. Medicare Advantage risk model changes will create a much tighter utilization environment