Transforming health care for tomorrow
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
Foreword
Executive summary
1. Introduction to futures thinking and strategic foresight
     1.1 Futures thinking and strategic foresight
     1.2 The importance of futures thinking
     1.3 Introducing the foresight brief series
     1.4 The ITU approach to strategic foresight
     1.5 Objectives of the ‘Transforming health care for tomorrow’ foresight brief
     1.6 The case for health care
2 Sensing in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world
     2.1 Exploring signals of change for a health care landscape
3 Analysing and refining key drivers of change
     3.1 Drivers and critical forces influencing future evolution of health care
     3.2 Drivers
     3.3 Weak signals with disruptive potential
4 Visualizing possible future scenarios
     4.1 Key drivers for exploring potential future scenarios
     4.2 Exploring a range of scenarios
     4.3 Envisioning scenarios through the interplay of key drivers
     4.4 Wildcard events
5 Prioritizing the desired scenario
     5.1 Four transformational scenarios
     5.2 Visualizing transformational scenarios
     5.3 Stress-testing the scenarios
     5.4 Enablers of the desired scenario
6 Actioning the desired future
     6.1 A roadmap to maturity
     6.2 Actions to drive future-ready health care systems
7 Managing the ecosystem
     7.1 Strength in stakeholder collaboration
     7.2 Activating implementation mechanisms
Annex
Abbreviations
Glossary
References