Rx for Integration T
The goal of every healthcare provider and underlying system is to improve the health status of patients in a cost-effective/sustainable way, says Jeff Benton, Senior Managing Director FTI Consulting
he dictionary defines integration as “combining (one thing) with another so that they become a whole”. Therefore using that definition, every health care provider in the
world thinks the care provided to its population is integrated and every patient in the world sees it quite the opposite. How can the two opinions come closer together? In practically every country around the world, factors such as aging populations, coupled with a rise in income levels and ups and downs of countries’ per-capita GDP, among other things are driving increases in healthcare costs. For example, increases in Asian healthcare costs
are being driven by many factors, including rising household incomes that correlate with the higher life expectancies that create a larger population of older, sicker patients which consume a greater portion of healthcare resources. Rising incomes also are associated with the increased incidence in Asia of
the chronic, non-communicable diseases, as well as common diseases associated with developed economies: diabetes, hypertension, and cancer, among others. (India and China now have the largest diabetic populations in the world and experts expect diabetes rates to rise rapidly throughout Asia.) These conditions have a profound and long- term impact on healthcare costs, even as they point the way toward the new healthcare models required to address them. With this understanding on the trends and
results, new strategies are emerging world-wide for a change in delivery of healthcare options that include trying new approaches by introducing and implementing new digital technologies that reduce cost and expand the reach of healthcare services and a strong movement toward integration. The challenges of such a transformation are universal, as is the goal of improving outcomes at
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