Recent years have witnessed a tremendous expansion of the healthcare services industry due to advancements in technology, attempts towards transformation, and other factors that have impacted the services. No matter where they reside, everyone must have access to inexpensive, accessible, and fair healthcare. People now demand comparable customized and convenient services from businesses, including healthcare. For this reason, providing a highly individualized experience is considered a top strategic goal by 92% of health executives. Enhancing health access and experience is strongly related to providing better treatment, which will eventually result in more favorable results. Consequently, consultants with a wealth of knowledge in both technology and healthcare will be in high demand in 2024. 

Healthcare systems will still need to make necessary investments during a downturn in the economy, and they will also need to bring in the right outside help to align the organization's goals. Investing in the appropriate skills and technology at the appropriate moment will provide a competitive edge. Healthcare systems need partners that can help them go forward with new understandings and insights that will enhance patient outcomes and spur growth, not suppliers. In 2024, Healthcare systems would still confront hurdles. 

We have witnessed a rise in layoffs in the labor market, which was probably caused by concerns about the need to cut costs in the healthcare sector. Employee layoffs by healthcare institutions are indicative of the ongoing trend. 

Leveraging Advanced Technology 

Technology is reshaping the healthcare industry. Patients are now able to haggle over costs and play a bigger role in choosing their course of care thanks to data. Better technology and usage will be required as a result of the government's push for improvements in social economics and social determinants, as well as an increasing focus on marginalized people and the ongoing shift from acute care to preventative care. Furthermore, the expansion of the global health industry will be largely driven by the rise in merger and acquisition activity, which will raise the need for technology and interoperability.

The ability to provide virtual health, hospital at home, cloud, edge, fog, cyber, and behavioral health services will be crucial to delivering high-quality care. This demonstrates that hackers' primary target has been and will be the healthcare industry. Wearable technology, greater IoMT, and sophisticated data and intelligence will all be adopted more quickly because to cloud trends like edge and fog. 

The healthcare consumer experience will shape the path of emerging technologies like generative AI, digital humans, digital twins, digital health aid, robots, augmented reality, 3D printing, and the Internet of Things. The possibilities for these technologies are endless. These devices will keep bringing transformative discoveries, choices about therapies, improved picture interpretation, changes to clinical processes, real-time monitoring, and quicker and more precise evaluations of the course of a disease and its effects.

Indices of Exemplary Healthcare Consultants

Skilled consultants are able to identify, comprehend, and resolve their partners' problems. It is obvious that few healthcare organizations purchase technology just for the purpose of acquiring new technologies. They understand that AI transformation initiatives will take the place of digital transformation initiatives and that ideas are just a means to an end; they must be able to put skills into practice that benefit their partners. They are familiar with the goals, objectives, and mission of your company in addition to your most seasoned executives, supporting and elevating your brand.

Excellent consultants are aware of what belongs in the scope and, more crucially, what doesn't. You combine in-scope and out-of-scope tactics in your strategies. They provide you advice on how to maintain your relevance over time without diluting your brand. A thorough grasp of both customer and patient demands as well as company skills is necessary for success in the market. Excellent consultants offer leadership and management. They act appropriately; they don't just do things correctly.

Participating in the care episode of the patient is like being a part of the exciting times in healthcare technology consultancy. They have the ability to influence healthcare policy in a way that is advantageous to all stakeholders as consultants.

Patients Outcome and Population Health in 2024

For a long time, healthcare practitioners have needed data to support their institutional objectives and improve patient outcomes. However, too much data is still hidden or kept in silos despite years of work and large costs, which makes it challenging to combine insights and take appropriate action. Healthcare organizations may be able to increase performance, enhance treatment, and more fully customize care if the appropriate data is unlocked at the appropriate time.

It is anticipated that organizations will be able to significantly improve patient outcomes, patient engagement in care plans, and access to appropriate first- or second-line therapy by combining new technology (Generative AI, Prompt Engineering, etc.) with appropriate data sets and further complimented by skilled consultants. It is also anticipated that healthcare institutions of all sizes would seek for solutions that offer quantifiable and useful analytics throughout the enterprise, enabling them to support population health programs and take both insight and action.

Leveraging technology is crucial in improving patients care and boosting operational efficacy so is the expertise of consulting. The future of the healthcare landscape will be built by embracing leading-edge technology and collaboration with seasoned consultants, leading to a better and improved patient outcome and healthcare services. 

“You need to start with the early adopters. You can’t start with folks who will fight you tooth and nail. You want to start with early successes and then evolve from there”, Felipe Osorno, Executive Administrator at Keck Medicine.