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70% of health CEOs expect hospitals to evolve into “healthcare hubs” KPMG surveyed 200 health leaders from around the world on using digital health technologies, the impact of COVID-19 and new healthcare models. The results are reported in the recent “Healthcare CEO Future Pulse.” We present the main lessons learned from the report. To better understand how healthcare executives will be charting this change in course towards the future, KPMG surveyed 200 healthcare CEOs from Australia, Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the United States. All these
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leaders oversee medium-to-large hospitals, health systems and care provider networks that span privately and publicly funded systems. 80 percent of hospital directors believe that healthcare needs changes, whereas 79 percent expect care delivery
models to be reformed in the next three years. So what conclusions can be drawn from the survey? • Less than a half of healthcare facility managers believe that their organizations were well-prepared for COVID-19. Still, almost all of them think that the crisis will be a factor accelerating the transformation of their sector. • The vast majority believe that in the next 3 years, all aspects of care delivery models will be significantly transformed. However, few have already started the