McKinsey and Company put moving from pandemic to epidemic in context in a post on March 30, 2022. They filed it under ‘COVID-19 Implications for Business’ as we continue to face twin threats to lives and livelihoods. We found their future view of living in a modern epidemic intriguing. We therefore decided to share some of their vision here.
McKinsey’s Future View of Living in a Modern Epidemic
First, we may expect to see more mass-infections in our over-crowding, over-heating world. However, McKinsey believes COVID-19 left us better-equipped to address world healthcare in future. That’s because we are now able to develop new vaccines, and medicines at hitherto unimagined speed.
Our collective mobilization was quite dramatic. For a time we even hoped to herald an era of cooperation. But that thought seems gone for now as our squabbling continues. However, we did share new knowledge that might help us prevent epidemics becoming pandemics in future.
McKinsey believes a new approach to health care will be critical, and explains how this could work in detail. Their thinking moves from one-size-fits-all hospital solutions towards patient-oriented care. Medical professionals would visit patients at clinics and in their homes. This was how things were while our parents were growing up. And it would be interesting to see the practice return.
Future, Ambulatory Healthcare in Our Modern Society
McKinsey’s article speaks of future healthcare which is ‘patient-centric, virtual, ambulatory, in the home, value based, and risk bearing’. They see private investors funding new technologies driven by medical data and analytics. This could simplify diagnosis and create more space for treatment.
Their future view of living in our modern epidemic includes developing care-at-home capability. This could shake out space for doctors to focus more on prevention, and less on acute care. Heart failure is 90% preventable they say. Yet it’s the ‘number-one or -two cause for hospital admission in America’. Therefore, perhaps something needs to change in the way we do our medicine.
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