Pwc Top Healthcare Issues in 2014

By Claire Thayer, December 12, 2013

This week, PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) released its annual report on their top health industry issues. Trending as HRI’s top 10 issues for 2014 are:

• Price transparency is growing as purchasers – consumers and employers – are demanding and receiving more information on cost and quality
• Employers are exploring new health insurance options through private exchanges
• New regulation aims to eliminate counterfeit medications in the drug supply chain
• States are turning to managed care to help contain Medicaid long-term care costs
• All healthcare companies need to rethink their roles and business models in the new health economy
• Healthcare companies will need to change their rules on innovation — embrace “fail fast” approaches
• Social, mobile, analytics, and cloud technologies are driving new health industry business models
• Corporate venture capital is picking up the slack as traditional venture funding slows for pharmaceutical start-ups
• Technology is redefining the healthcare job market
• Drugmakers must rethink their clinical trial research methods, embracing alternative approaches

To explore all of these important issues, start here!  Want to learn more, these and other key trends and issues impacting the business of health care throughout 2014 will be discussed at the 12^th Annual Future Care Web Summit, scheduled for January 23, 2014 – the webinar is at 1:00PM.