2021 Global Health Care Outlook: Precision MD CEO Mahmmoud Khattab
Mahmoud Khattab is the CEO of Precision MD, a global healthcare management company with operations in more than 30 countries. In this article, he talks about his views on the current state of health care and some predictions for 2021.
Khattab says that as we know it, “healthcare delivery” will change drastically over the next decade due to an aging population and new technology advances such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. “The industry has evolved from one-size-fits-all to personalized medicine and precision diagnosis,” he says. “We are entering an era where population health management can be automated and managed by algorithms.”
Khattab says some of the big issues in the field of medicine today are preventing chronic disease, cancer care, access to care for all populations, affordability, integration of technology into medical practice, data security, and privacy.
In the next decade, Khattab says some of the key challenges will be “assuring adequate access for all populations around the world to affordable and high-quality care;” making sure that technology is built into health care systems from the ground up; and making medicine more personalized through better data sharing, technology integration, and faster processing.
Khattab sees three major opportunities for improving health care in the future: the use of AI and machine learning; better integration between primary and tertiary care; and data sharing across various levels of healthcare (doctor to patient, hospital to hospital, etc.).
As far as Precision MD’s business goes, Khattab says they will continue to expand their global presence and “become a smart hub for healthcare management” by enabling health care providers to become smarter at what they do, working with payers and governments to make sure everyone has access to quality care and accelerating the pace of innovation in the industry.
Khattab points out that growing costs of care increasingly hamper society’s ability to address these challenges. There are limited incentives to lower costs and even limited transparency on the drivers of cost. Patients are also affected by health care prices. See detailed information click on the link: https://www.dignityhealth.org/ourdoctors/1063617603-mahmoud-khattab