In partnership with HealthTech, we conceived, designed, and conducted a workshop to identify and describe a scenario for Remote Health Services (RHS), encompassing what RHS could look like in 2016 from the perspectives of different stakeholders, and how will we arrive there from where we are at the moment.

This was the third in a series of workshops Monitor has conducted in the past year to develop a rich, multi-perspective view of the future of healthcare. In this workshop, instead of developing various scenarios of the future of an industry as we generally do, we decided to select a likely scenario and expand it in greater detail. In the process, however, we identified key uncertainties, which could provide the basis for a scenario planning exercise at a later date. Also, at the back end, we created preliminary ideas for business models to investigate the feasibility of the future we project. Although by no means complete, we hope that this attempt serves to generate meaningful discussion on this very important aspect of future health and healthcare.