Featured study
2021-05-27
The taboo on raising efficiency and productivity in healthcare must be broken. To stave off the next crisis in healthcare, we must invest smartly not only in innovations that improve patient outcomes, but also in those that improve efficiency. If the current trend of productivity decline continues, in 2040 the Netherlands will need three million healthcare workers to meet the growing demand for health care services: one million more than previous estimates, which do not take productivity decline into consideration, and double the current number of healthcare workers. In our new study, “Prevent the next wave”, we show that turning the tide is a dire necessity, and we make recommendations for an innovation ecosystem that befits one of the great healthcare challenges facing us in the next few decades.