The future of primary care is in thinking outside the hospital

<p>Ashwin Naik</p>

The future of primary care is in thinking outside the hospital

Ashwin Naik

We Scale Impact, India

: J Health Inform Manag

Abstract

Why is the healthcare system broken in almost every part of the world? Why pumping in more money or resources into the system doesn’t seem to solve the problem? Are we looking for the solutions in the wrong place? Is there a new way to address the challenges? Dr Naik shares his perspective of what we can do differently to address the gaps in today’s healthcare system. He argues that to re-imagine healthcare, we have to start by ‘thinking outside the hospitals’. Through an in-depth study of healthcare entrepreneurs from around the world, he gleans some key principles for the future of healthcare.