Demand vs. Supply Executive Summary

Ambulatory Strategy:

The future of healthcare is ambulatory care, as most health systems are preparing for a shift in the delivery of care, to 80% outpatient/20% inpatient in next 20 years. Enrollment in the Medicare Program is projected to nearly double between 2000 and 2030 and by 2015, approximately 150 million Americans will have at least one chronic condition. These statistics will drastically change how our healthcare models are structured.

The concept of “Healthcare for Life” is to be able to serve patients throughout their numerous life cycle changes; the healthcare industry must adapt to this type of care and begin to prepare to provide a “continuum of care” throughout a patient’s life.

Health systems are working to provide “Life Cycle Care,” which includes helping individuals navigate healthcare options and resources, developing the means to encourage lifetime relationships, extending successes in the acute environment to outpatient and chronic disease management, and into the community, creating connectivity across the health system, its partners and those served. The goal is to be where healthcare is needed, how it’s needed to be there, to meet the evolving health needs of those served.

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Source: BOMA Healthcare Conference.