In 2023, the #healthcare industry saw continued conversations around #AI, industry-disrupting drugs, and staffing shortages – so what will we see in 2024? Here are 4 of my #predictions for the upcoming year: 📱The technology conversation will continue to be driven primarily by #generativeAI and #ChatGPT, and we will begin to get clearer answers about regulatory needs and the impacts AI is having and will continue to have in healthcare. 💊 The spotlight will move away from pop culture-driven weight loss prescriptions (hopefully) and instead focus on treatments and preventions for cognitive conditions like dementia and Alzheimer’s that impact millions of individuals in the US and around the world. 🧑⚕️Staffing shortages in healthcare will persist and could even potentially worsen, so we must find ways to dramatically increase the number of healthcare workers—and equally focus on delivering care in new and different ways, supporting and easing their burden—to ensure maintaining quality patient care. 💲#ValueBasedCare will continue to gain traction in our system and eventually outpace the Fee for Service (FFS) model. Frontline caregivers and those working behind-the-scenes will increasingly examine our roles and how we impact value in the work we do. The landscape supports this claim as well – the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services want 100% of beneficiaries operating according to Value-based Models by 2030, especially as our society addresses the continued aging of our population. There might even be some green space for AI and technology in helping us make this transition… Stay tuned for January’s edition of my #SimplifyingHealthcare newsletter, where I’ll dive deeper into more of my healthcare predictions for 2024. 💡 #BigIdeas2024 #HealthcareOnLinkedIn #TopVoice