Context and Opportunity
In the next decade, healthcare delivery systems will transform radically. Our current capital intensive, hospital-centric model is unsustainable and ineffective. The Platform for Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare leverages a data-enabled delivery system and virtual care, integrated across the continuum of care from precision prevention to personalized care delivery, with most health services offered in appropriate settings. We aim to ensure every person on earth has equal access to the highest standards of health and healthcare by:
1) Keeping populations healthy
2) Delivering the best care
Support stakeholders in the global health and healthcare ecosystem prepare for the future by:
1) Encouraging new models of collaboration/partnership in addressing challenges, creating opportunities and scaling existing best-in-class initiatives in public-private coalitions.
2) Raising awareness, building a shared understanding and driving collective action to leverage the Fourth Industrial Revolution to transform the health and healthcare systems.
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Our contribution
Our Platform curates international organizations, academic institutions, pharmaceutical and biomedical companies, healthcare NGOs, hospitals, healthcare providers, infrastructure and insurance organizations to shape the global health agenda. Stakeholders collaborate on major industry challenges across four pillars - preserving health, preparing and responding to epidemics, accelerating sustainability of healthcare systems and enabling access to health.
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