Health Care Advisory Board
The mission of the Health Care Advisory Board, our flagship program, is to track, report, and provide expert support to members on the most critical issues facing hospitals and health systems today and into the future. Our staff of expert industry researchers run deep on a wide range of strategic, operational, and clinical subject areas, directing ongoing inquiry toward those areas of most acute interest to our members.
Sample of Recent Research
Innovation and the Outmigration of Care: Future Growth, Competition, and Outpatient Shift in Hospital Procedural Lines
This study forecasts future growth and competition in U.S. outpatient procedural markets and highlights the right investment and partnership strategies to ensure profitable outpatient growth across the next decade.
- Future volumes
- Future hospital market share
- Future inpatient-to-outpatient shift of key hospital surgeries
Overcoming Ruinous Competition: Emerging Models for Hospital-Physician Alignment
This research addresses reforming hospital-physician relations in the context of increasingly destructive competition for profitable outpatient business, lack of progress on cost and quality initiatives, and the failure of current physician partnership strategies.
- Defending the hospital business
- Maximizing the value of hospital-physician partnership models
Profiting from Innovation: Managing the Impact of New Clinical Technologies
Faced with rising technology costs, more progressive providers are looking to regain some measure of control over the economic impact of costly advances.
- Reducing the expenses of devices
- Improving reimbursement
- Ensuring optimal revenue collection
Example of Tools and Resources for Members
Inpatient Market Forecaster
- Forecasting for 18 service lines, 75 sub-service lines
- Hospital-specific five- and ten-year growth and profit forecasts
Outpatient Market Forecaster
- 6,000+ individual procedure-level forecasts for market growth, non-hospital competition, revenues changes and cost trends
- Five- and ten-year forecast options, zip-code level specificity
Online Tools and Calculators
- DRG Rebasing Calculator
- Facility Investment Calculator
- Futures Database
Service Line Briefings
Current market landscape, forecasts of future demand and 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