With the beginning of 2022 marked by yet another wave of COVID-19, it’s easy to feel like there is a dark cloud hanging over the year already, despite it only being a few weeks old. The energy feels similar to March 2020, in several ways.

But every cloud has a silver lining. Throughout the pandemic, health care innovations boomed, with the industry acknowledging unmet needs and adapting to meet them. COVID-19 shined a spotlight on  deep, pre-existing disparities and inequities impacting individual, community, and population health across the country. And care providers and innovators acted heroically to address some of the most pressing needs threatening lives and livelihoods.

Yet the health care environment is still ripe for innovation as we head into the new year. With that in mind, I have three hopes for health care for the year ahead.

  1. Enhancing the focus on the drivers of health
  2. Tightening mental and physical health’s close-knit relationship
  3. Aiding the rapid increase in telehealth’s scope

Read the full article about health hopes for 2022 by Jessica Plante at Christensen Institute.