Healthcare Predictions 2024 Perspectives on Health and Tech

Healthcare is ever evolving and new trends and tech capabilities are on the horizon for 2024 and beyond. What should healthcare organizations, clinicians, and patients be prepared for? How might healthcare delivery and operations be impacted? Listen in as two leaders from Oracle and Deloitte Consulting LLP dive in and share their perspectives from industry clouds and AI adoption to burnout, workforce shortages, rising costs, consumerism, and more.  

Featuring:  
Hashim Simjee, Principal, Global Oracle Healthcare Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP 
Sarah Matt, M.D., MBA, Vice President of Oracle Health Product Strategy 
Hear them talk about: 
Healthcare organizations adopting industry clouds (1:30) 
Utilizing AI to improve operations, support caregivers, and make diagnoses (4:32) 
How AI adoption can help free clinicians’ time, improve clinician workflows, and decrease burnout (6:49) 
A recent JAMA study comparing empathetic responses of physicians and chatbots and how AI, augmentation, and telemedicine could help offload clinician workload and address workforce shortages (9:02) 
Consumerization of patient care and how tech can help (11:23) 
Interoperability, and accurate and accessible patient data’s potential to influence health outcomes for populations disproportionately affected by social determinants of health (14:15)  
How to make use of IoT with data from wearables and hospital at home (16:54) 
How tech innovation can make a difference in healthcare’s biggest challenges this year (18:05) 
Notable quotes: 
“You can’t replace the bedside manner, you can’t replace the empathy for a clinician, but you can replace the components around pulling together information and coming back with a reasonable diagnostic that can be done and that has to be reasonable and validated.”  – Hashim Simjee 

“So what we're really looking at is, as we think about AI and access—we really want to start to think about equitable access and using technology to drive easier access for consumers.” - Hashim Simjee 

 
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Check out Deloitte’s 2024 Global Health Care Sector Outlook. 

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Episode Transcript:
 
 
 
00;00;00;11 - 00;00;23;18 
Sarah Matt 
You're listening to Perspectives on Health and Tech, a podcast by Oracle with conversations about connecting people, data and technology to help improve health for everyone. We're at the start of another new year, and I can't help but be curious about what's coming in the health care industry in 2024 and beyond. More specifically, the tech capabilities and trends that are ramping up to support health care delivery and operations. 
00;00;23;29 - 00;00;42;20 
Sarah 
Now, Deloitte published a 2020 for Global Health Care Sector Outlook report that shared several key trends that are anticipated to make quite a splash in the future of health care delivery. And I'm excited to dive in and hear more. So with that, I'll introduce our guest speaker with us today, Hashim Simjee. Hashim, introduce yourself a little bit. 
00;00;43;26 - 00;01;04;19 
Hashim 
Thanks, Dr. Matt. Great to be here with you. The way to help your practice, primarily focusing on technology and health in the intersection of health care. And I'm responsible for our global Oracle health care practice, including clinical plan analytics, HRA, HCM, ERP. So happy to be here with you today. 
00;01;05;03 - 00;01;23;05 
Sarah 
Nice. We're happy to have you. You know, in our last podcast, we discussed cloud tech for health care. And looking at this year's health care predictions, I was really excited to see that in a recent report published by the International Data Corp.. So I see that 7