10 Ways Medicine Will Change in the Next 10 Years–Hospital CEO

This is from a list a CEO of a major hospital in Orange County and looks to be pretty accurate, except that there’s many other facilities that may challenge them on innovation and being the most advanced facility, but that’s marketing today. BD

Reporter Erika I. Ritchie got these 10 notions on the future of healthcare from Peter Bastone, president and CEO of Mission Hospital … The list:

1. There will be considerable consolidation of facilities and closures of hospitals in Orange County.

2. Healthcare reform will force collaboration and alignment between healthcare institutions, physician groups, long term care providers, home care and other healthcare industries to provide a compelling clinical and fiscally responsible environment.

3. E-healthcare will hit critical mass across the healthcare continuum where patients can access their medical records from their phones or computers easily and be monitored for continuing care.

4. Retail healthcare centers will be more common encompassing wellness centers, health food stores, nutritional supplements, complimentary medicine and personal care treatments outside the scope of items insurance companies traditionally cover.

5. The patient experience will be predominately virtual and will offer opportunities for consumers to experience telemedicine or have dialogue with a physician at home or at an offsite location…

6. Medical advances in cardiology, cancer and kidney disease will cause 50 percent of the procedures to be outpatient, completed through the use of robotics and possibly done virtually.

7. Through adult stem cell research, individuals may be able to grow their own organs. The question that will remain for consumers is an ethical one.

8 Through genome therapy and brain stimulation research in 10 years the growth and onset of Alzheimer’s and dementia will be curbed downward even though there is a growing senior population.

9. Mission Hospital will have the most advanced diagnostics in the country by heavily investing in innovation and robotics. We’ll build universal rooms where patients can stay from critical care through discharge.

10. Continued advancement in interventional surgical techniques to save brain tissue and allow full recovery without any residual effect of stroke will continue to grow exponentially.