What is the most important medical focus for global ceos in 2017
Pricewaterhousecoopers released its 20th global CEO annual survey of the healthcare industry.
The survey interviewed 56 ceos from 27 countries, and explored the views on topics such as globalization, technological innovation, talent and trust in 2017.
1.Under the background of globalization, government regulation continues to become a focus of attention
In line with last year, overregulation has become the top concern among executives, with 84 per cent.
Economic uncertainty and geopolitical uncertainty followed, with 82 percent and 80 percent.
Given the special nature of the medical market, the results are not surprising.
While ceos are more concerned about the overall situation, they remain optimistic about the company's business prospects.
Fifty-two percent of the industry's ceos are very confident about future earnings growth prospects.
2.Technology and innovation bring danger and opportunity
In the healthcare industry, a quarter of the ceos surveyed believe that technology will completely change the competitive landscape in the next five years, while only 2% of ceos say technology won't affect competition in the industry.
In addition, 71 percent of respondents focused on the speed of technological change, while 70 percent focused on changing consumer behavior.
3.Technical reform promotes the transformation of talents
The gradual convergence of technology and talent is a new theme in the global CEO annual survey in the past few years.
As automation and machinery are able to take on more and more work, many companies are restructuring their staff structures, and the functions of their jobs are changing.
In this year's survey, 79% of respondents said the medical industry, they have adjusted the talent strategy, the skills needed to adapt to the future and the employment structure, the proportion was consistent with the CEO of the world's average.
In practice, however, most of the global CEO are planning to increase staff this year, rather than lay off employees, the proportion of the health care industry CEO is significantly higher than the average: 64% of the health care industry CEO intend to hire in the next 12 months, the highest proportion in all industries, and global CEO of around 52%.
However, 59% of ceos have begun to study the industry and the benefits of the machine to work (52%), by contrast, the global average, has 52% of the respondents are considering influence on future demand for skills, artificial intelligence that are far higher than 39% of the global average.
4.Cyber security is a major threat to trust
Now, the trust has gradually aroused people more and more attention, and this is a digital technology will not be solved, will only cause more problems: 75% of the medical industry CEO think enterprise in the new digital age is more and more difficult to build and maintain trust.
In the eyes of all medical industry respondents, the breach of data privacy ethics was the primary threat to the trust of stakeholders in the next five years, with a ratio of 82%.
Given the high sensitivity of the medical industry's data, the results are not surprising.
"Trust is essential," says BernardTyson, chief executive of Kaiser permanente, one of the ceos interviewed.
You never want to be discredited, because the doctor-patient relationship is probably the closest thing to a relationship that touches on the reality and fragility of human life.
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