Health Care Industry Committee

The Health Care Industry Committee serves as a portal into the health care provider landscape for a broad cross-section of companies offering products and services to the hospital industry. Drawing on the complete spectrum of Advisory Board research and a staff of 150+ subject-matter experts, the Industry Committee aims to provide a 360-degree view of health care delivery—offering insight into the clinical, financial, operational, and policy changes likely to affect hospital and health system administrators’ spending decisions now and in the future.

To optimize member service and the tailoring of information to each member’s needs, the Industry Committee is organized into six industry-specific membership cohorts:

Biopharmaceutical Roundtable: biotech and pharmaceutical firms
Facility Planning Forum: architecture, construction, and facility planning firms
Health Care Investor Roundtable: investors, lenders and other financial services providers
Health Care IT Forum: IT software, hardware, and solution providers
Health Services Roundtable: staffing/recruitment firms, physician groups, outpatient services providers and specialty management services
Medical Technology Roundtable: medical device, equipment, and supply manufacturers

Sample of Recent Research

Hospital of the Future: Lessons for Inpatient Facility Planning and Strategy

Lessons for hospitals and health systems striving to build high-quality, low-cost inpatient facilities. Report is organized around critical implementation decisions associated with facility strategy:

Capacity planning
Space planning
Design choices
Construction process

Innovation and the Outmigration of Care: Future Growth, Competition, and Outpatient Shift in Hospital Procedural Lines

Forecasts the future growth and competition in U.S. outpatient procedural markets. In addition, this study highlights promising investment and partnership strategies for hospitals looking to ensure profitable outpatient growth across the next decade.

Future volumes
Future hospital market share
Future inpatient-to-outpatient shift of key hospital surgeries

Unlocking the Value of Clinical Information Technology: Best Practices for Designing, Deploying, and Managing Clinical Systems

Features 20 best practices to help hospitals and their IT solution partners realize the quality improvement potential of clinical information systems, including:

Analyzing clinician workflows and meeting clinician needs
Preparing for rollout
Encouraging ongoing improvements

Example of Tools and Resources for Members

Outpatient Market Forecaster

6,000+ individual procedure-level forecasts for market growth, non-hospital competition, revenue changes and cost trends
Five- and ten-year forecast options and zip-code level specificity

Online Tools and Calculators

Futures Database
Facility Investment Calculators
DRG Rebasing Calculator
Tumor Site Dashboards
Hospital Revenue Cycle Benchmarks

Service Line Briefings

Current market landscape, forecasts of future demand and hospital economics, and strategic imperatives for principal hospital service lines, including:

Future of Cardiac Services
Future of Cardiology
Future of Orthopedic Surgery
Future of Neurosciences
Future of Diagnostic Imaging
Future of Oncology
Future of Women’s Services

Medical Technology Briefings

Advisory Board perspective on emerging clinical/information technologies and new procedures. Includes demand forecasts and in-depth looks at strategic, operational, and financial considerations likely to affect hospital adoption:

CT Angiography and 64-Slice
Image-Guided Radiation Therapy
Pediatric Imaging
Aneurysm Coiling
Carotid Stenting
Premium Hip and Knee Implants
eICU
RFID

Online Best Practices Compendiums

Easily searchable collections of hospital and health system best practices featured in past Advisory Board research presentations:

Revenue Cycle Management
Supply Cost Management
Recruitment, Retention, and Workforce Development
Employee Engagement
Nursing Care Quality and Safety