What is a current event in the health care industry that is influencing change and how will it effect the future of healthcare?

Biotechnology and pharmaceutical research

Explanation:

Healthcare industry includes healthcare providers (i.e., hospitals, clinics, etc), health-associated workers (e.g., nurses, community health workers, medical professionals, physiotherapists, etc), and scientific community whose main function is to improve healthcare treatments. In healthcare, research includes two main areas: biotechnology and pharmaceutics. Healthcare biotechnology (also known as medical biotechnology) refers to a discipline that uses living systems to understand human biology and to develop new health-care treatments, while pharmaceutics involves the development of medications that can be used safely and effectively by patients. In the last years, both research areas have shown to have the potential to change healthcare to personalized healthcare. For example, biotechnology approaches nowadays can be used to obtain genetic data that allow the design of personalized treatments tailored to modulate the expression of genes in patients suffering genetic diseases.