The (Distant) Future of Health Care

What will healthcare delivery in the U.S. look like in 2123? A century is a long time frame to anticipate the potential for sweeping change, but Becker’s Hospital Review has sounded out physicians and healthcare executives to offer their assessment of potential transformations in patient care and population health.

Among them: Vastly increased use of genomics that will personalize care for each individual patient, surgery performed not just robotics but by AI robots, hospitals themselves becoming a rare exception, tools for disease prevention rather than post-symptomatic treatment, and remote delivery that makes today’s telehealth services pale by comparison.

You can read the full report, here.

Posted June 7, 2023