Breaking Healthcare's Iron Triangle Accenture

Access, affordability and effectiveness no longer need to be competing priorities. The challenges faced by current and future healthcare systems are no secret. Healthcare costs increase faster than GDP grows, and healthcare is the most labor-intensive industry of our times. It faces a globally growing, aging, population increasingly suffering multiple chronic conditions and consuming excessive amounts of resources. Three of healthcare systems' top priorities--access, affordability and effectiveness--have traditionally formed an "iron triangle" of dependence, unable to be improved simultaneously.