We talked about healthcare and healthcare systems and healthcare delivery, one can think of healthcare delivery markets. Think of that as a supply chain. So you see these different areas of specialty that are required in order to get healthcare and healthcare delivery to the patient. There's different elements associated with the supply chain, there's the providers, there's medical equipment that's required, there's pharmaceuticals, there's enablers by the government, as well as there's researchers required. There's the delivery through pharmacies in order to get to the patient, but also for the patient to be able to insure themselves and provide the right resources to afford the different healthcare as required. Now, this is about one way to look at these healthcare delivery markets as well as supply chain. But what's important to know is that some version of these different types of elements play within a healthcare delivery market depending on where you live, the type of regulations that you will have, you will have different types of delivery markets and supply chains. But as we go through an event like this to get care to the patient, there will be some versions of these enablers through the process in order to get the right health care to the individual or the population. If we're talking about healthcare, a healthcare system, the different delivery mechanisms as well as looking at different architectures and archetypes of how to view health care, what we're finally getting to is that system drivers associated with healthcare as was mentioned early on, drivers are those areas that really push a particular area to make certain decisions and choices. So as we look at health care and health care drivers, we'll look at a few of those that really impact healthcare and the way that you pursue healthcare. First of all, let's still look at the financial element, that is often one of the areas that is sided for healthcare improvements and health care needs. What you want to be able to do is provide health care at a reasonable price. However, sometimes when you look at healthcare, some of the advances in technology are required to address the health care needs, which is costly. Also, the population is aging and if you have a demographic skew, that can impact the cost of healthcare. Also, if you look at different ways to incentivize people for health care, are they looking more prevention or are they looking more at response? So if you can have a prevention mindset, you can help with healthcare costs. Also the idea of prescription drugs, there are different conventions and different pursuits relative to prescription drugs, which is costly by the way. So how do you look at the financial element of health care to make sure that is affordable and be provided to others. Also the different type of population and where people are at and how they conduct their lives, how is their lifestyle? How are they living? What habits do they have? You want to make sure that people have positive lifestyles and positive health because that will not put as much pressure on the healthcare system. Also, we want to make sure that there is some version of equity when it comes to healthcare, we want to make sure that people can have affordable healthcare, that need affordable healthcare. How do we provide those resources necessary to provide the healthcare required? Also, the population changes, the equity changes and how do we deal with that into dynamic fashion? Then one of the most important elements relative to health care is the quality. How do we make sure that there's quality healthcare in the midst of population, cost, equity? How do we make sure that we can have quality healthcare in all elements of the population and make sure that we have written policies in a fashion so that we can have insured healthcare quality and treatment? As we continue the discussion of healthcare system drivers, let's take a look here. At first, the practical use of technology. You see technology pop up all over in healthcare. For example, the digitization of health and patient information and data, the idea of patient portals, the idea of management systems within healthcare, as well as coordinated care, all the different technologies that occur. But what's important is, how do we make them practical for the physician as well as for the patient, as well as for the administration? How are we going to make that very practical? Also, the idea of the need for the point of care, how do we get care to the patient? Let's just say via telemedicine, how is that done? Or medical tourism, how are we going to make that achievable and make it right? So that is a clear driver. Also, personalized medicine. There are so many treatments that may be global, but how can we make sure that it's targeted to the individual, the pharmaceuticals targeted to the individual? We need to make use of big data and we need to understand the intricacies of that information to personalize that medicine. Also, biomedical research. How are we going to continue providing foundational characterizations and models of different elements of health care? Also, we talked about technology. But how can we make it scalable? We may have a great technology, but how can we make it scalable for the different infrastructures that it's needed? Also, the timeliness of prophylactics and therapeutics. Different types of needs occur and emerge so quickly, how can we do that on a timely basis? These are clear drivers for healthcare.
