1. The Federal Trade Commission will move to block a merger between Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care and Chicago-based NorthShore University HealthSystem.
2. A new type of wearable will include substitutes for more expensive medical therapies.
3. End-of-life care will be in the media and hospice use will double among ACOs and capitated physicians.
4. A major hospital system, having avoided the move to risk-based reimbursement and losing too much of its investment, will unload itself of employed physicians.
5. The 2015 trend of insurance innovation will die down in 2016.
6. The excitement over precision medicine will also die down.
7. Hospitals will cut back on the use of population health analytics, causing some analytics companies to disappear.
8. The high cost of on-demand healthcare will reduce the appeal of this option.
9. PCSK9 cholesterol drugs will make high-priced Sovaldi look cheap.
10. Employers will strategize to hold down spending on employee health.
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