FUTURIST STUDY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF HEALTH SECTOR

Year 2019, Volume: 5 Issue: 9, 54 - 61, 27.10.2019

Ramazan Erdem , Dilruba Uğurluoğlu

Abstract

Numerous innovations have occurred in the health
sector from past to present. With the technological benefits of globalization
and the era we are in, a great progress has been made in many subjects such as
new treatment methods, robotic surgery, artificial organ production, genome
research and so on. This development and change in the sector continues with an
increasing momentum and there is a curiosity about what may happen in the years
to come. In this context, it is aimed to examine the predictions about the
future of health sector with a futurist approach in this study. The
participants of the study consisted of 36 students studying at the 4^th
grade of the Department of Health Management at Süleyman Demirel University
where they are taking “New Directions in Health Management” course. In the
research, the students were given a form to explain 10 different titles about
what kind of changes would be different from the present in the health sector
in the years of 2050. Content analysis, which is one of the qualitative data
analysis methods, was used in the analysis of the data formed as a result of
deciphering the answer given. According to the answers received from the
students, it is understood that technology is the basis of the changes and
transformations that will occur in the health sector in the following years. In
the answers given by the students, the predictions that the need for manpower will
decrease in the health sector, the supply of remote health services and robotic
surgery acting with artificial intelligence will widespread step forward. 

Keywords

futurism, health sector, health management, technology

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