2023 Healthcare Trends Point to Continued Improvements in Patient-Centric Care
As 2023 gets underway, we decided to look at some of the predicted trends for healthcare delivery in the new year. It is expected that medical providers will continue to convert their practices to value-based models as government programs look for ways to improve patient outcomes while reducing costs.
The home, office, and non-traditional locations for delivering medical services to where people live, work, and play continues to increase, with less emphasis on traditional doctor’s office visits. One significant advantage of this trend is access. The elderly, homebound, and patients living in remote areas without medical facilities can now receive the medical attention they require. Companies like South Carolina & Georgia House Calls provide in-home primary care and specialty services to their patients.
According to Forbes, technology, especially in the field of wearable devices, will increasingly track an individual’s health and exercise, as well as clinicians monitoring patients remotely. The sophistication of these wearable devices has risen to a point where smartwatches now perform EKG scans, and smart gloves can reduce tremors suffered by Parkinson’s patients. Significant investment and research into additional devices are expected to produce wearables capable of detecting and monitoring signs of mental illness.
An article published by Forrester predicts remote patient monitoring (RPM) will continue to play a critical role in treating patients with chronic conditions by treating symptoms before they escalate, thereby reducing avoidable hospitalizations. RPM is crucial for expanding the acute-care-at-home models, and the global market for RPM is projected to reach 175.2 billion by 2027. According to the article, six in ten Americans live with at least one chronic disease.
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