Explore highlights from Connected Health: The Drive to Integrated Healthcare Delivery through a graphical journey.
Healthcare leaders around the world are looking for new ways to improve the quality of healthcare delivery and expand access to vital services for increasingly diverse and demanding populations. At the same time, they are trying to get a grip on the rising costs of healthcare. This series of infographics highlights the significant findings of Accenture’s year-long connected health research study and shows that while progress is being made along the connected health journey, there is still much work to be done to deliver high quality, accessible and affordable healthcare to people around the globe.
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Making the Case for Connected Health |
| The value of connected health is optimized through the coordinated efforts of many stakeholders. While all stakeholders benefit, it is useful to view the specific advantages from the different perspectives of the clinician, the organization/system, the patient, the insurer or payer and the wider population or society as a whole. |
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Progress Toward Connected Health |
| Accenture focused specifically on the development of connected health in eight countries: Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain and the United States. We chose these countries because they all face similar challenges around how to improve quality, secure access and control cost. |
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Overcoming the Challenges |
| While Accenture’s research shows that all the countries in the study are proceeding on the journey to connected health, significant barriers and challenges continue to hinder progress. |
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The Dynamics of Successful Connected Health |
| Six key dynamics characterize those systems and organizations that are successfully progressing on the journey to connected health by creating the new relationships and practices that will ensure healthcare IT interoperability and help drive better, more integrated healthcare delivery for citizens. |
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Balancing the Six Dynamics |
| The broadest and deepest progress to connected health relies on both the actions of leaders and agencies that set national healthcare policies and the efforts and initiatives of the organizations that deliver health services at whatever level they operate. Striking the perfect balance of the six dynamics and implementing in manageable ‘chunks’ will help organizations progress on their conntected health journeys. |
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The Future of Connected Health |
| There is no single route to traverse the progressive stages of healthcare IT adoption, health information exchange and care transformation, as our studies in the eight countries and beyond have demonstrated. |