Top Healthcare Trends for 2021

Why This Topic Matters

Understanding these trends helps healthcare organizations, employers, and billing or administrative teams anticipate changes affecting benefits, employee experience, care delivery, and digital tools in 2021.

Article Sections

1. Rise in Healthcare Premiums

   Discusses expected changes in healthcare premiums and the broader forces influencing employer and employee planning for the year ahead.

2. Cost-Sharing Increases

   Covers the possibility of higher employee cost-sharing and related benefit design considerations.

3. Everything Goes Virtual

   Reviews the growing emphasis on virtual healthcare and virtual enrollment in response to changing care delivery and workplace patterns.

4. Support for Mental Health

   Describes the continuing focus on employee mental health, stress reduction, and wellness support programs.

5. Expansion of Voluntary and Specialty Benefits

   Summarizes employer interest in additional benefit options as competition for talent and flexible work patterns evolve.

6. Healthcare Trends and Apps for 2021

   Introduces several categories of healthcare apps and their role in supporting care, wellness, and communication.

7. Healthy Living Apps

   Covers consumer-facing wellness apps and the kinds of health tracking features they provide.

8. Clinical Reference Apps

   Describes reference tools used by patients and healthcare professionals for general clinical information and documentation support.

9. Remote Monitoring Apps

   Discusses remote patient monitoring tools and their use alongside telehealth and telemedicine services.

10. Clinical and Diagnostic Apps

    Addresses apps used to share information securely and review test results or related clinical data.