Gallery: Deloitte names Top 10 Healthcare Innovations

Health plans, providers, life sciences companies and the government are facing rising costs and inconsistent outcomes, according to professional services firm Deloitte. To improve care and health outcomes, while reducing costs and spending, will likely require new innovations over the next 10 years. The group has delineated what it considers to be the 10 most important.

The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions surveyed leaders across the healthcare system to identify the innovations they think are most likely to transform healthcare. Deloitte maintains that the 10 innovations identified in its report have the potential to break the constraints of the fee-for-service-based healthcare system and expand the frontier through new business models -- which have the potential to deliver care in ways previously not thought possible.

Incorporating these top 10 innovations into business models will require changing how healthcare organizations currently prevent, diagnose, monitor and treat disease, according to Deloitte. Leaders, the group said, should determine which innovations break performance trade-offs, or create more for less, in a way that impacts their core business. They should consider building ecosystems that embrace non-traditional players and sources of knowledge outside their own four walls. They should also consider building pilots before investing in scale, learn to embrace change, and evaluate new revenue sources. And organizations should strive to be agile in anticipating and adjusting their strategies as innovations continue to evolve.

Scroll through the slides to see Deloitte's Top 10 Healthcare Innovations.

Applications of genetic sequencing to identify at-risk populations or target therapies to patients who are likely to respond.

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Lower-cost and highly customized medical technology products that can be tailored to suit the physiological needs of individual patients.

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Treatments with the potential to significantly extend survival for cancer patients, without the negative side effects and related healthcare costs of traditional chemotherapy.

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The ability of computers to think like and complete tasks currently performed by humans with greater speed, accuracy, and lower resource utilization.

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Allow for convenient, timely testing at the point of care (physician office, ambulance, home or hospital), resulting in faster, more cohesive patient care.

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Simulated environments that could accelerate behavior change in patients in a way that is safer, more convenient and more accessible.

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Tapping data from social media and online communities to give healthcare organizations the ability to track consumer experience and population health trends in real-time.

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Technology-enabled activity trackers, monitors and sensors incorporated into clothing, accessories and devices that allow consumers and clinicians to easily monitor health.

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Retail clinics and urgent care centers that provide more convenient and lower-cost care to patients for a number of health issues.

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A more convenient way for consumers to access and increase self-care while potentially reducing office visits and travel time. It may also prevent complications and emergency room visits.

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