Trends in healthcare 2022

 

 

See PDF Deloitte document:

2022 Global Health Outlook, Deloitte

See PDF Forbes predictions (Anita Gupta)

The Future Of Health Three Healthcare Trends For 2022

See PDF Capgemini document:

Top-Trends-in-Healthcare-2022

La clave para el desafío de 2022 que la COVID potencia – Project Syndicate:

La clave para los desafíos de 2022 que la COVID potencia by Ngaire Woods – Project Syndicate

 

As every year, at the beginning of it, an extensive literature is generated with forecasts on healthcare for that year.

Let’s quickly go through just a few of these documents:

  • 2022 Global Health Outlook, from Deloitte
  • Three Healthcare Trends for 2022, by Anita Gupta, published in Forbes magazine
  • Top Trends in Healthcare 2022, Capgemini
  • Key to 2022 Challenges Powered by COVID, published in Project Syndicate magazine

2022 Global Health Outlook, from Deloitte

This report presents a number of forces that are decisively affecting the future of health and health systems:

  • A global pandemic of historic proportions
  • Exponential Advances in Medical Sciences
  • Explosion of digital technologies
  • Data access and data analytics
  • Informed and active patients
  • A movement from disease care to health and wellness

From this point of view, the Deloitte report presents six major themes that will be very present in 2022:

  • Health equity
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Mental health and wellness
  • Digital transformation and impact on delivery models
  • The future of medical science
  • Public health, reimagined

Health equity

The fundamental problem is that extreme poverty grew globally in 2020 for the first time in almost 20 years.

This poses new challenges for healthcare systems.

Corporate Social Responsibility (ESG)

The main challenges are to move towards a health system with zero CO2 emissions; climate change and its impact on the infrastructure of health systems; and, climate change and its impact on health.

Mental Health and Wellbeing

The pandemic, climate change and political crises have exacerbated mental problems.

Digital transformation and impact on delivery models

This will force investment in 5G infrastructures; move contact centers to the cloud; create a delivery system without barriers; reinforce interoperability and connectivity: and broaden the concept of partnership.

The future of medical science

Transformational innovations are:

  • Digital medicine
  • Nanomedicine
  • Genomics
  • Artificial intelligence and big data
  • Microbiometric / metabolomics

Public health, reimagined

A public health that impacts the social determinants of health

Three Healthcare Trends for 2022, by Anita Gupta, published in Forbes magazine

The three trends identified by Anita Gupta for healthcare in 2022 are:

  • CSR focused on innovation
  • Data Analytics to Accelerate Biotechnology Innovation
  • Consumer-Oriented Telemedicine Solutions

Top Trends in Healthcare 2022, Capgemini

 

The ten themes and the priority matrix are represented in the following table:

 

 

Key to 2022 Challenges Powered by COVID, N. Woods, Project Syndicate

With a different perspective, Project Syndicate magazine looks at the challenges of COVID-19 for 2022.

  • People’s relationship with work has changed

In the United States in 2021, more than 4 million workers quit their jobs per month. Something similar happens in China.

  • Cut the growing global trend towards authoritarianism

According to Freedom House, the pandemic has weakened the checks and balances of power in at least 80 countries.

  • Third challenge: let there be another pandemic

There are other threats from infectious diseases.

  • COVID 19 is changing the rules by which the economy will be governed in 2022

There is a rise in economic nationalism.

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