PwC announced during a webinar earlier this month what they believe to be the top 10 healthcare issues of 2014:
1. Companies rethink their roles in the new health economy
2. Corporate funds invade healthcare venture capital space
3. Employers explore private exchanges
4. Industry picks up the pace of price transparency
5. Social, mobile, analytics and cloud come together
6. Technology is the new workforce multiplier
7. Twenty-first century tools refresh clinical trials
8. Fail fast, frequently and frugally for true innovation
9. States pursue Medicaid managed long-term care
10. New rules combat counterfeit drugs
PwC compiled this list based on polling data they collected in Fall 2013 from 1,000 consumers and interviews with top healthcare industry executives. For more information and comments from some of the webinar attendees, read Top 10 Healthcare Issues for 2014 as it appeared in Healthcare Finance News.