TY - JOUR
T1 - Medicine of the future
T2 - How and who is going to treat us?
AU - Kulkova, Julia
AU - Kulkov, Ignat
AU - Rohrbeck, Rene
AU - Lu, Shasha
AU - Khwaja, Ahmed
AU - Karjaluoto, Heikki
AU - Mero, Joel
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was partially sponsored by the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Finland. This research was partially sponsored by the research center XPRES (Excellence in Production Research) – a strategic research area in Sweden.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors
PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - Medicine's ability to quickly respond to challenges raises questions from researchers, practitioners, and society as a whole. Our task in this study was to identify key and atypical current factors influencing the development of medicine and to predict the development of medicine in the short, medium, and long term. To implement our study, we selected 22 medical experts and applied the three-level Delphi method. The current trends caused by COVID-19 have a short-term impact, but they will launch other drivers that will transform the healthcare industry. Well-being technologies, data-informed personalization, and climate change will become key drivers for the development of medicine over the period of 1–50 years. Expert opinion is divided about the future of mass availability of advanced medical treatment and sustainable development of healthcare.
AB - Medicine's ability to quickly respond to challenges raises questions from researchers, practitioners, and society as a whole. Our task in this study was to identify key and atypical current factors influencing the development of medicine and to predict the development of medicine in the short, medium, and long term. To implement our study, we selected 22 medical experts and applied the three-level Delphi method. The current trends caused by COVID-19 have a short-term impact, but they will launch other drivers that will transform the healthcare industry. Well-being technologies, data-informed personalization, and climate change will become key drivers for the development of medicine over the period of 1–50 years. Expert opinion is divided about the future of mass availability of advanced medical treatment and sustainable development of healthcare.
KW - Delphi
KW - Forecast
KW - Future
KW - Healthcare
KW - Medicine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85146124195&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.futures.2023.103097
DO - 10.1016/j.futures.2023.103097
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85146124195
SN - 0016-3287
VL - 146
JO - Futures
JF - Futures
M1 - 103097
ER -