Healthcare Systems versus Medical Progress

I think this depends on how AI develops and if AI somehow will take over decisions about healthcare. Medical innovations will always develop.    Sweden

With the extra power of AI, it will definitely speed up and revolutionise. Netherlands

More use of technology will optimize diagnoses.                                     Netherlands

Medical innovations need data, and the more the better. This means there is a new incentive to get more people in front of clinicians, to monitor their health at unprecedented new levels, and to learn from the results. If this can be balanced with individuals’ needs for privacy instead of corporations needs for profits, 2043 will be very different.    United Kingdom

Advances in technology, such as artificial intelligence, robotics, genomics, and nanotechnology, are already making significant contributions to the field of medicine. it will continue at a faster pace.        South Africa

AI will speed up healthcare, and people will get older and older. That also means that people will get more and more illnesses.  Netherlands

[ed] An interesting concept: getting better will make it worse.

There will be outstanding progress and revolutions in medical healthcare.    Nigeria

At current rate healthcare is already innovating fast. New methods (generative AI) and weakening of taboos (gene editing) will certainly lead to revolutions.                                      Netherlands

Revolutionary advancements are coming and will change healthcare indefinitely.  United States

Advances in synthetic biology, diagnostics & customized care will explode  enabling a revolution in the health care cost/quality ratio with improved outcomes for patients.                   United States

Longevity focus for those who can afford will rise.                                  India

Growing your own limbs and organs is a distinct possibility by then (2043). India

By working globally, sharing information and knowledge and making it accessible, innovation goes faster. knowledge is power is over, there is a common goal that is worked on globally. Technology supports this.  Netherlands

Breakthroughs in medicine will revolutionize healthcare.                         India

Technologies will revolutionize the medical and healthcare fields; massive number of people will benefit and people will become healthier and live longer.                                          Hong Kong

Personalized medicine and other innovations will be game changing as long as they are made available to all.  Australia

The innovations in healthcare could accelerate the inequality between rich and poor – the rich will be able to afford the innovations – but in general I believe that we will experience an uplift of the global health level.   Biggest challenges from my perspective is the mental health.                 Germany

There might be slow progress, however, could be a few revolutionary innovations in between which might have an impact.    India

Covid has shown us that even in a reactive mode, organizations and governments are making strides in healthcare.    India

In medicine, evolution is better than revolution. Such is science. Czech Republic

They will revolutionize healthcare (gene therapy has already started doing so) but good healthcare won’t be accessible to all.         France

From a US perspective access to health care keeps getting more expensive and access more difficult. Similar to wealth those pushing for the status quo are finding it getting harder to get coverage and access to good care.    Technology and innovation in health practices are improving things for many, but a lot of that is coming from outside the traditional health insurance systems.                                    United States

Revolutionize but the small but rich group will have an unfair advantage.     Canada

Innovations would assist in making health care accessible but may not be evenly available across all population.    Nigeria

There will be better healthcare. But access will remain an issue.             India

While there are many exciting medical innovations on the anvil, the key challenge is to make them ubiquitous, especially in rural areas where access to good quality healthcare remains a challenge.   India

Access to new healthcare innovations will be uneven, as clearly shown by the inequal access to vaccines during this pandemic.   Canada

Poor people will die because of high price to the good healthcare.           Rwanda

The gaps are too large now – unless the approach towards wellbeing shifts it unlikely to be very different in the future. South Africa

There will considerable change in healthcare, AI will aid in the glaring gaps in mental health support and technology will help in terms of 3D printing limbs and medical aids, without the need to wait long periods of time. However I believe that pharma will continue to withhold life-saving treatments and charge ridiculous prices for the likes of insulin to those who are financially disadvantaged but backed into a corner of having to pay for it, or die.        United Kingdom

It will be revolutionary for the ones who can afford. For all others it will remain inaccessible. Indonesia

I suspect that the history of healthcare innovations will continue and that they will be unevenly distributed. Technology and especially the promise of AI to support medical interventions rely on computer systems being in place to deliver the benefits. These currently mainly exist in richer countries or the richer parts of poorer countries (The UK still has some hospitals without computer-based records of any significance so even this is uneven!)       United Kingdom

Healthcare will change. This will be driven by competition. It will not change on its own.         United States

A shift will occur in some countries/companies where healthcare will be available based on contribution.   United States

While medical innovations increase more rapidly than ever, it takes time to implement it once approved and organize it in order to be available for all. We should review and try to accelerate the lifecycle of such projects.    France

Feels the same as the distribution of wealth, it needed a momentum to the gravity of something like the pandemic which didn’t bring in a revolution, so it is unlikely something of equal magnitude will come along to disrupt, however badly it may be needed                                               United Kingdom

We will be able to understand health from an energetic perspective and with it, our ability to relate to health and sickness will change.     Innovations might help to support that, but not only technology will be the reason why healthcare will change and improve, the way we understand the human being is the most important defining factor.  Germany

Neutral on this question as the flash point of new medical innovation has not arrived yet (like cure of cancer), but AI may accelerate it in the upcoming 20 yrs.                                    China

Will revolutionize for those who have access to treatments. Mental health in general and new conditions such as autism will continue to increase due to poison food                            Brazil

Healthtech and AI will do a lot of great improvement. We will on the other hand see more epidemics and pandemics that will cause suffering and death due to climate change      Sweden

Revolutionize. Ageing population will bring needs and demand innovations. AI will open up new solutions to health issues. The knock-on effect of the impact of the pandemic might mean we need to deal with endemic covid. Netherlands

Probably a continuous revolution ahead, with a massive danger & headwind with the progressive expansion of euthanasia, that could endanger severely the links in our society.           France

It will not change; until it does. Innovations, thru technology, will shapeshift care, but it will not be until the system itself is broken up (and i do believe that will happen within 20 years) that healthcare will be truly revolutionized.   United States

There will be revolutionary things in healthcare, but not likely accessible for all. Generally I imagine slow progress, but hopefully the digital health card will be here, and individual access managed by the card owner only.    Switzerland

This is partially dependent upon the prevailing economic systems and forms of government across the world. Countries that find a balance between the private, public, and not-for-profit spheres of healthcare may be able to provide a reasonable level of proactive and reactive healthcare to the majority of their populations, without overburdening governments and taxpayers. Those nations that are primarily reliant on the private sector will continue to see an arms race in healthcare, leading to a downward spiral where less people can afford private healthcare, putting more and more pressure on those with the wealth to afford it. The more people who leave private healthcare, the greater the pressure on the public and not-for-profit arms.         Australia

Cost saving innovations in public healthcare and new revenue generating innovations in private healthcare. Example with diabetes where devices and advanced medication are prevalent in private while lower cost chronic medication and self monitoring options may be adopted in public.    Netherlands

There will be great differences between the USA and other parts of the world. The USA trusts markets to solve all problems, but a market-based approach will hinder progress in the USA. United States

Medical Innovations will revolutionize healthcare but the political and social intervention will make it slow and uneven.        India

‘Digital’ is exemplar in several national healthcare programmes but also where it is led and provisioned by government. Individual set ups tend to be isolated and non-universal therefore limiting their reach and purposefulness. United Kingdom

Health personnel are not encouraged to do more. This will slow down progress in health sector        Nigeria

Cultural change in the medical world is needed for a revolution. If not then progress will only be still be uneven  Netherlands

This largely will be dependent on Government reforms that support the revolution.        Nigeria

I think that you will see significant enhancements in medical systems that are open to innovation. I’m not sure the NHS is that way being fully socialized medicine whereas a hybrid of public and private as in Europe is more likely to do this.          United Kingdom

I wish it would revolutionize, but it’s such a rigid system that change will not go that fast.        Belgium

We live in a geopolitical world run by politicians and investors. What gets funded drives medical innovations. Politicians make choices to stay in power and get re-elected by the public. Investors know that and seek innovations that the public will support and politicians can “grease the wheel” with tax breaks, regulatory changes, etc. Canada

This I think will only be held back by funding issues when either developing or rolling it out to the public   United Kingdom

Although it will appear as if multiple breakthroughs in the medical field are taking place, in reality, the number of innovations will be a fraction of what could have been possible. Main constraints? The profit motive of big pharma.        India

The bureaucracy (in the United States) and impact of the insurance companies will continue to create challenges of moving healthcare forward.                                               United States

I suspect it depends largely on the segment. Innovations in tech associated with healthcare have the ability to revolutionize it, but the inherent bureaucracy that lives in may keep it slow to adopt.    Canada

Innovation in healthcare presents financial challenges                            Australia

Healthcare is part of battle between rich and poor. The rich see healthcare as an area in which they can make huge profits while the poor see healthcare as social benefit for all. Medical innovations seem a back door way of bringing more private funding to NHS. Such funding does not come without strings. it means a more profit focused healthcare system. United Kingdom

As long as medical advancements, both equipment and medication are profit driven, health care will be slow to innovate.      United States

Revolutions are at hand and more will come fast. Commercial pharmacy will keep having a negative impact in getting it to those who need it (most).                                                   Netherlands

I am appalled at the changes in the US health care system.  The combination of the stress of Covid on the system as a whole and the shortage of health care workers of all professions including dentistry is wreaking havoc in the US.  Our health care system is not about health it is about break fix in acute cases.  The system and the research community are focused on acute care and are woeful at chronic care.  I am deeply grateful for the break fix capability as a result of a life-threatening auto accident.  Through five long surgeries and months of recovery I am able to walk again.  But it took me putting together a multi-expertise resilience team together to be able to walk again.  The health care system Fixed, but I had to rebuild.  That was five years ago, and staffing has gotten worse, not better.                                       United States

There will be remarkable advancements in treatments and the science behind them, but there will be western market pressures to put profits ahead of widespread usage.  That will make the progress more uneven.  Additionally, we keep finding ways to live more unhealthily (diet, sedentary lives, etc) that can often negate any advancements.    United States

Again I hope we find better ways. And I hope there will be a focus on preventing rather than curing the deceased. Healthier living.  Denmark

I find this very hard to answer, so for example things like limbs / mobility and physical support could be revolutionized quite a lot.  With drugs and the way the food and drug  industry have a grip on governments I see it as almost insurmountable unless there is a major disruption by functional and homeopathic doctors.  A very large number of illnesses are there as a result of diet, lifestyle choices, the government does little to educate or in fact in my view educates alternatively.                              United Kingdom