We remain committed to serving those who provide care by delivering insights into the evolution of healthcare to help guide the actions of medical leaders making critical decisions. What Will Healthcare Look Like in a Decade?Īs we look forward at TDC Group, we are discussing healthcare over the next decade while focusing on trends, challenges, key lessons, and emerging risks. Access to care, health equity, health literacy, and an epidemic of health misinformation were all shown to be life-and-death issues unresolved in this country. The pandemic has also unearthed serious fault lines in American healthcare. On the other hand, in 2020 we experienced more than 500,000 excess deaths caused by delayed, deferred, or disrupted care for patients with non-COVID illness, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is predicting thousands of additional deaths over the next decade caused by postponed or canceled checkups and cancer screenings in 2020. Concurrently, medical science has countered the existential threat of a global pandemic fueled by a new and terrifying virus by creating a vaccine and delivering billions of doses-all in a year-while continuing to push toward worldwide adoption.
Decades of investment in the digitization of medicine have accelerated the adoption of remote, personalized care, leading to massive investments in medicine by new corporate entrants. On one hand, despite extraordinarily trying circumstances, those on our clinical frontlines have delivered some of the finest hours of contemporary medicine, finding new and innovative ways to deliver care to millions of patients despite distancing restrictions and life-threatening conditions. healthcare system have been tested by near-battlefield conditions, we can see the emerging risks and opportunities that have developed over nearly two years of disruption. Anderson, MD, FACP, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Doctors Company and TDC Group
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