What You Should Know: - A new PwC report offers insights into how pharma companies can translate game-changing science into greater returns. - Despite many major therapeutic advancements within the last decade, returns from pharma companies lagged the S&P 500 by about one-third and biotech underperformed by 60 percent. The stock performance divide between the front and back of the pack has been widening. PwC’s analysis showed that in 2021, the five-year
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AI Will Continue to Improve Healthcare, But Only If We Can Trust It
While the public perceives artificial intelligence as futuristic, AI is already intertwined with healthcare today. As a PwC report observed, AI is transforming numerous aspects of healthcare, from medical training and research to wellness and treatment. But while AI is already supercharging our capabilities (it’s 30 times faster and 99 percent accurate when reviewing mammograms, reducing the need for unnecessary biopsies, for example), AI is also supercharging the disparities that are baked into
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PwC Unveils Top 10 Healthcare Industry Issues to Watch in 2017
2017 will be a year dominated by the continued shift toward value within healthcare as the industry adapts to a new era under the administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump, according to PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI). Traditional health organizations and new entrants will need to balance the uncertainty of the new administration’s approach to healthcare with the continued opportunities being created by forces greater than politics.The annual PwC report, “Top Health Industry Issues
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PwC Report: Most Primary Care Teams Are Not Designed to Optimize Care
Most primary care teams are not designed to optimize care or meet consumer demands for convenience and value, according to the latest report from PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI). The PwC report reveals that a primary care dream team designed around the needs of complex chronic consumers, for example, could potentially result in $1.2 million in savings for every 10,000 patients served. Designed with consumer needs and preferences in mind, the primary care dream team can bring together
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PwC: 5 Forces Shaping the New Health Economy Over the Next 10 Years
The US health industry is undergoing seismic change and consumers are playing a critical role in this transformation, according to PwC. The new report, “Surviving seismic change: Winning a piece of the $5 trillion US health ecosystem,” published by PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) reveals how American consumers are gradually finding themselves in the middle of this vast new health economy.HRI’s report lays out a vision for the US New Health Economy over the next 10 years, with likely gains
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3 Keys to Scaling Up Population Health Management for Providers
Financial incentives, technological advances and pioneering care models have provided fertile soil for the green shoots of population health to grow. But for these programs to flourish, they will need more sophisticated analytics, patient stratification, community involvement and care management.This week, PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) released “Population health: Scaling up,” where they interviewed executives in leading healthcare, research and academic institutions on how organizations
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PwC: Hispanics Are Pioneers in Mobile Health Adoption
Hispanics are pioneers in mobile health adoption and will become primary care’s consumer mavericks, according to a new report from PwC's Health Research Institute (HRI). In the report, "Primary Care in the New Health Economy: Time for a Makeover," HRI finds Hispanics have adopted mobile health at a faster rate than non- Hispanics, as many other patients are still slow to e-mail their physician or refill a prescription by text message. Hispanics: Primary care’s consumer mavericks Hispanics
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3 Ways Health IT Companies Can Create An Innovation Engine To Succeed In Healthcare
Health IT Companies looking to succeed in the new health economy that rewards better care must change how they innovate, finds PwC’s Health Research Institute.
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Report: How Can We Be Sure That mHealth Isn’t Just Technology-Driven Hype?
This global report from PwC assesses the market opportunities and challenges for mobile health (mHealth) from the perspective of health care providers, patients and payers. The report finds a growing pervasiveness of technology enabling the emergence of a new, more patient-centric health care value chain that can leverage mHealth. The distinction between traditional health care and mHealth is dissolving as consumers demand a seamless health care experience that can be provided via mobile
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