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Scott Becker - 12 Big Healthcare Innovations 5-7-26 · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast

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  This is Scott Becker with the Becker business
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  and the Becker Healthcare podcast.
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  Today's discussion is 12 big health care innovations,
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  and I'm gonna try and track some of
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  these. Obviously, other people will have other thoughts
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  in them, but I thought I'd run through
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  12 of these and see if you find
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  this interesting.
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  Please feel free, at any time to give
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  me comments or thoughts on this, and we'll
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  go from there. Thank you.
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  First,
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  artificial intelligence and the impact on ambient listening,
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  logistics, and predictive analytics,
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  also in revenue cycle, virtual nursing,
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  and progress on supply chains,
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  also on some of the clinical areas. So,
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  generally, the cascading use cases of artificial intelligence,
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  I would say, is probably the the the
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  first largest,
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  innovation that we're watching.
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  Second,
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  the movement of care
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  increasingly for some doctors in some areas such
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  as primary care
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  to PAs, NPs, and allied health professionals,
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  also, overall, moving towards workflow
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  redesign to change how we deliver care.
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  The third big innovation
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  we're watching is the emergence of GLP ones
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  at scale. Amazing. This has grown into a
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  130,000,000,000
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  a year and growing significantly from there.
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  Fourth,
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  the increasing movement of care out of nutritional
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  health systems and clinics to telehealth and other
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  providers.
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  Interesting enough, it didn't come
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  from Walgreens and CVS and Walmart, but for
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  many other entrants.
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  Yes, Amazon has big part in what they're
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  doing as well.
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  Fifth, the evolution of vaccines and immunotherapies
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  for cancers, and and this is really interesting,
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  particularly as people are starting to catch some
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  of the cancers earlier to see if some
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  of this can offset some of the growth
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  in cancers.
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  Sixth, the movement to minimally invasive surgery. And,
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  again, it's been been over a five to
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  fifteen year period,
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  but increasingly a big, big thing.
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  Seventh, the movement to precision medicine.
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  Again, more and more, does this drug work
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  for this person specifically?
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  And if not, let's move to something else.
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  I think fasting CEOs evolutions.
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  Eighth, the acceleration and training of nurses, and
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  this is particularly when you juxtapose it to
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  what's happened with physicians.
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  We turn up about a 180 to 200,000
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  nurses a year.
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  We're only turning out about we we start
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  about 23,000 doctors a year, and there's a
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  big mismatch in how quickly we're able to
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  train nurses and move them through the system,
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  develop that pipeline
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  line again, and what's going on with physician
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  training.
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  Ninth, something we touched on earlier,
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  the accelerated screening for cancers. This is evolving
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  at really fast speed to do more and
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  more through blood test in other ways than
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  the traditional ways, and then this leads to
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  a lot of people thinking
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  and and maybe on the verge of getting
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  cancer or having cancers, and then we gotta
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  figure a way to make sure we could
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  treat them well. Tenth,
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  this is a move back to the past,
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  is the movement of health systems to refocus
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  on cardiovascular,
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  oncology, orthopedics,
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  and those things that are the big demand
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  and big dollar areas.
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  Finally, eleventh, I'm a big fan of the
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  development of changes in pharmaceutical
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  pricing, whether through CivicaRx
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  or Mark Cuban cost plus, just real evolutions
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  that will towing pharmacy and how it's delivered.
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  Still not cheap.
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  Twelfth, the increasing use cases for wearables.
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  Again, you know, more and more people trying
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  to find ways to use wearables
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  to help them with their sleep, with their
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  diagnosis, with how they're doing, with when they
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  should get to the doctor, and a lot
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  more.
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  I I think so many fascinating
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  evolutions and innovations going on.
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  We can go on in this for for
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  a long time, a lot we're still missing,
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  but lots of different fascinating health care innovations.
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