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The Office of the Future An interview with Ashik Desai, Executive Vice President of Business Growth & Analytics, ContextMedia:Health We have all heard the statistic: 17.5% of U.S. GDP is currently spent on healthcare, and 80% of these costs are attributable to chronic condition treatments, according to the CDC. One of the key remedies to this trend is improving comprehension, conversion and compliance of chronic disease treatments and lifestyle choices. ContextMedia, having recently acquired AccentHealth, is the leading healthcare decision platform at the point of care in the U.S. Because their combined technologies are now a major influence on the struc31 | HS&M DECEMBER 2016/JANUARY 2017
ture, efficiency, information delivery and physician/ patient interaction in offices across the U.S., we interviewed EVP Ashik Desai to get a picture of what the office of the future will look like. Where will this sector of healthcare be in a few years? In speaking about the point-of-care sector, all signs indicate that we will continue to see a level of growth in market size that exceeds growth of other DTC
