Description

Integrated healthcare (IHC) is the design, management and delivery of healthcare services along the continuum of care. IHC is a growing trend is fast encompassing diagnosis, treatment, long-term care, rehabilitation services and predictive modelling for coordinated care and population health management. The key driving forces behind IHC are: increasing medical costs, growing trend of healthcare consumerism, need for a patient-centric care model and comprehensive healthcare coverage to individual and community. In this study, Frost & Sullivan analyses the emerging healthcare delivery models, market forces that impact these innovations and strategies that are employed in effecting healthcare integration.