title: The coming age. What's ahead for hospitals and health systems.
abstract: The health care delivery system is a reactive instrument: it conforms to the demands of the most powerful drivers. How the system responds to these drivers in terms of design of coverage and delivery of care represents in large part the major challenge of the coming decade. This article presents an overview of some of the major drivers of health care today--cost, customers and technology--and how hospitals and health systems are responding.
authors.affiliation: Deloitte & Touche, LLP, Detroit, MI, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Olson
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bourque
mesh_terms: D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000639:trends; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000639:trends; D008824:Michigan