While no one nation has all the answers to the healthcare dilemma
--- most have pieces that ARE working.
The health systems of nations around the world may be
unsustainable if unchanged over the next 15 years. Globally,
healthcare is threatened by a confluence of powerful trends --
increasing demand, rising costs, uneven quality, misaligned
incentives. If ignored, these trends will overwhelm health
systems, creating massive financial burdens as well as health
problems for current and future generations. During 2005,
PricewaterhouseCoopers interviewed 700 health and business
leaders in 27 countries about their health systems. While no one
country has all of the answers, solutions to local problems can
be found throughout the globe. Creating a sustainable strategy
for the future depends on organizations. abilities to learn and
customize workable solutions within a societal context. In
HealthCast 2020: Creating a sustainable future,
PricewaterhouseCoopers has identified transferable lessons within
seven key features that will create systems that are built to
last.
In every country, in every interview, everyone is afraid
that their current health system is not built to last
and is in danger of collapsing if change does not occur.
While no one country has all the answers, most have
pieces that ARE working. Each country must pull the best
pieces together in a way that works for them.
There is a convergence of healthcare solutions in the
global healthcare market. We need to apply global
solutions to local healthcare problems.
Consumers will be play a much larger role in healthcare,
and this one powerful force will change the way
healthcare is delivered, managed and received,
In this edition of HealthCast, PricewaterhouseCoopers looks at
solutions and responses from around the world to the
globalization and industrywide convergence of healthcare. What
insights, best practices and policy lessons can be learned from
experiences in various countries to create a globally sustainable
health system? Who, or what, is driving the solutions?
