The healthcare industry has now surged to the top, becoming the largest industry in the world, with a scale three times that of the banking sector. After lagging behind for nearly five decades, the revitalization and transformation of healthcare are proceeding at a pace far exceeding that of other industries.
To improve the healthcare system, we must pursue three major goals: enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and reducing per capita insurance expenditures. To achieve these goals, several key reform measures need to be implemented. The main contents are as follows:
Wellness Health;
Prevention
Consumer-Centric and Integrated
Participatory: Patients helping other patients; peer-to-peer self-help among patients
Personalization & Precision Medicine
Outcomes focuses on results;
Engagement Appointment;
Digitization;
Consumerization
Interoperability: Interoperability;
Continuum of Care: Continuous Management
Research by global corporate growth consulting firm Frost & Sullivan has identified nine key areas poised for explosive growth or transformation within the healthcare ecosystem, as detailed in the figure below. Companies capable of delivering solutions in these domains will ultimately emerge as winners:
Figure 1 lists nine critical areas in the healthcare industry that require urgent attention in the future, including AI-driven clinical decision support tools, chronic disease management, innovative solutions to reduce misdiagnosis and error rates while enhancing safety and efficiency, patient appointment scheduling, personalized medicine, real-time healthcare, interactivity, intelligent computing, and healthcare cost containment/business model innovation.
Frost & Sullivan has also boldly placed its bets on the following new companies, confident that they have a bright future ahead. The chart lists the top ten enterprises in the healthcare industry in 2015.

By Chen Kun
Editor: Zhang Nan