Question

Discuss how changes in U.S. demographics will impact the health care industry in the future. What do you anticipate will need to change to meet these demographic changes? How do you think other related industries (e.g., insurance companies, government entities, changes to technology) will respond to the changing needs that diversity presents to the health care industry? How have they responded in the past?

Answer 1

Within a decade or two, United States will have a larger number of aged population than most of the other developed as well as developing countries. With growig older population at this pace, it would be really difficult and testing time for the U.S healthcare to keep a record and take care of the overall health of these people. More people from different places in the world will migrate to the United States in search of jobs, growth and other oppurtunities. From our past history it is pretty evident that with growing number of outside population will increase the risk of more number of unknown health conditions and pandemic. As a result, the need of advance and efficient healthcare would be more than anytime in the past. However, with the present rate of decline in the number of qualified medical professionals, the uneven distribution and shortage of physician and nurses will have a larger gap of what is today.

However to meet the needs of these demographic changes, it can be speculated that more number of qualified healthcare personals would be recruited at a very rapid pace. Healthcare facilities would be extended to the homes. Chronic pain and diseases would be managed through tracking data, electronic health records and doctors will start monitoring patient in real time. Concept of telemedicine, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality would be very much in practice to treat addiction, phobias, and other physical and mental disorders as well as the doctors would use them to learn anatomy and advanced surgerical techniques.