Thought Leadership

Health reform is big and comprehensive, and it will affect nearly all parts of the health system. In this publication, PwC provides a condensed version of HRI reports, providing the industry with some “quick thinking” about how health reform will change the business of healthcare. We explore four key findings around health IT, physician-hospital alignment, mobile health, and the health insurance exchanges.

The brief's four key findings elaborate on these themes:

• The US is embarking on its largest investment in health IT ever, but most health systems have left out the voice of the patient
• Hospital and physician relationships are moving from courtship to marriage
• Mobile health is booming, but business models have been elusive — until health reform
• New members and risks await insurers in the $60-billion health insurance exchange marketplace