January 15, 2025
The state of healthcare is a hot topic not only in the Caribbean or globally, but throughout island jurisdictions. Whether it concerns high, middle or low-income countries, public or private, healthcare systems around the world are facing similar issues. These issues include a rising demand for services among aging populations suffering high chronic-disease burdens, ballooning healthcare spending, continuing workforce shortages, widening health inequities, and the harmful effects of climate change on health. Given the magnitude of these challenges globally, meeting the soaring demand for healthcare with traditional approaches and ways of working will likely be unsustainable according to a new report by KPMG International launched today in the Caribbean. This report states that progress towards a future where healthcare systems stay widely accessible to their populations will likely require fundamental paradigm shifts across a combination of technology, workforces, integration of care, and community activation – not technology in silo.
