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While the new year often feels like a time to reset and regroup, 2025 has started off in a sprint. As pressures continue to grow across all sectors of the industry, it’s no secret that leaders need to think and act differently in order to succeed in the new year. With so many swirling changes, it can be hard to sort through the most important topics, trends, and perspectives to focus on. That’s where Advisory Board—and Radio Advisory—come in.

This week’s conversation is the first of a two-part series that digs into what healthcare leaders need to have on their radar in 2025. Host Abby Burns invites Advisory Board experts Natalie Trebes and Max Hakanson to break down what Medicare Advantage breakups, untenable drug costs, and evolving cyber threats signal about changing power dynamics across the healthcare industry.

Stay tuned for part 2 of the conversation next week, where we’ll cover the state of health systems and, of course, what we expect to see in the policy landscape this year.

This episode was recorded on Jan. 8th, 2025.

Links:

• 17 things CEOs need to know in 2025
• The state of the industry: What healthcare leaders need to know for 2025
• The data health system vendors need to know in 2025
• 4 strategic pivots for 2025 (and beyond)
• Cybersecurity in healthcare
• Ep. 227: The changing tide of Medicare Advantage

State of the healthcare industry

A transcript of this episode as well as more information and resources can be found on RadioAdvisory.Advisory.com.

2024 was filled with upswings and downswings in the healthcare industry. Whether it was unprecedented cyberattacks, the continued rise of GLP-1 therapies, or the return of hospital volumes, healthcare leaders stayed busy. And things aren’t expected to slow down in 2025.

To give you a preview of where we may be headed, this week, hosts Rachel (Rae) Woods and Abby Burns invite five Advisory Board experts to break down what their teams will be researching in 2025 and why these topics matter for health leaders. Throughout the episode, our experts preview how health system service lines, value-based care, care variation reduction, artificial intelligence, and specialty pharmacy will change in 2025 and beyond.

Links:

• The state of the industry: What healthcare leaders need to know for 2025
• Get early access to our 2025 executive briefing
• Service lines and specialty care landing page
• Value-based care landing page
• Artificial intelligence landing page
• Hospital and health system trends landing page
• 4 common pitfalls in care standardization — and how to overcome them

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A transcript of this episode as well as more information and resources can be found on www.advisory.com/RadioAdvisory.

As care delivery becomes more complex and new disruptors join the scene, one thing has become clear: operational excellence is now table stakes in ensuring your organization’s financial sustainability and winning patients.

In this episode, recorded live from Advisory Board’s 2024 Strategy Summit, guest host and Managing Director of Physician and Medical Group Research at Advisory Board, Sarah Roller, invites Dr. Mary Jo Cagle, CEO of Cone Health and Dr. Cynthia Horner, Chief Medical Officer of Amwell and President of Amwell Medical Group, to unpack what it takes to achieve operational excellence, why adaptive leadership is essential to success, and why true operational excellence does not have to be as daunting as it seems.

Links:

• Cone Health | We're Right Here With You
• Hybrid Care at Scale | Amwell
• 8 lessons for facility planners from our recent strategy summit
• Pivots for a sustainable future
• Provider operations

Pivots for a Sustainable Future Virtual Summit

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A transcript of this episode as well as more information and resources can be found on www.advisory.com/RadioAdvisory.

Every day it seems like there is a new challenge in the healthcare industry that requires immediate attention, making agenda and goal setting for the new year an even more difficult task. To help you decipher the signal from the noise host Rachel (Rae) Woods hands the microphone over to Advisory Board experts who will share the big questions on their radar in 2023 and the hypotheses that they plan to test.

Topics include:

Links:

• Healthcare in 2022: An industry under pressure
• Ep. 124: The decisions shaping the future of healthcare

PS: This is the final episode of 2022. A BIG thank you to all our guests who came on Radio Advisory this year to share their knowledge and insights and to the team behind the scenes who make this all happen. We made this special video to show our appreciation. New episodes will drop on January 10th, until then, have a happy and healthy new year.

As we emerge from the global pandemic, healthcare is restructuring. What decisions should you be making, and what do you need to know to make them? Explore the state of the healthcare industry and its outlook for next year by visiting advisory.com/HealthCare2023.

In Part 1 of Radio Advisory's Hospital of the Future series, host Rachel (Rae) Woods invited experts to discuss cost-cutting strategies for hospitals facing financial hardships. But what if there are no more costs to cut? In Part 2 of the series, Rae invites Optum Executive Vice President Dr. Jim Bonnette to discuss the sustainability of modern-day hospitals and why scaling down might be the best strategy for a stable future.

Links:

• Ep. 142: The dire state of hospital finances (Part 1: Hospital of the Future series)
• Our Strategy playlist
• Our Financial Impact playlist

As we emerge from the global pandemic, healthcare is restructuring. What decisions should you be making, and what do you need to know to make them? Explore the state of the healthcare industry and its outlook for next year by visiting advisory.com/HealthCare2023.

Advisory Board is a subsidiary of Optum. All Advisory Board research, expert perspectives, and recommendations remain independent.

The majority of hospitals are predicted to have negative margins in 2022, marking the worst year financially for hospitals since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Part 1 of Radio Advisory's Hospital of the Future series, host Rachel (Rae) Woods invites Advisory Board experts Monica Westhead, Colin Gelbaugh, and Aaron Mauck to discuss why factors like workforce shortages, post-acute financial instability, and growing competition are contributing to this troubling financial landscape and how hospitals are tackling these problems.

Links:

• 'The most difficult year': Why hospital finances are so strained
• Our Financial Impact playlist

As we emerge from the global pandemic, healthcare is restructuring. What decisions should you be making, and what do you need to know to make them? Explore the state of the healthcare industry and its outlook for next year by visiting advisory.com/HealthCare2023.

Healthcare typically lags behind other industries when it comes to digital transformation. However, growing competition in the field means a solid digital consumer experience is becoming more crucial for organizations. In this episode, Rachel (Rae) Woods invites digital health experts Jordan Angers and Ty Aderhold to discuss what healthcare leaders need to consider when revamping their digital consumer strategy and how to ensure that patients who could benefit most from digital health aren’t being left behind.

You will also want to stay tuned after their conversation because Rae has analysis of the midterm elections and what the results could mean for healthcare.

Links:

• Ep. 21: Digital health and disruption in the Covid-19 era
• 2022 midterms: These healthcare initiatives passed on state ballots

As we emerge from the global pandemic, healthcare is restructuring. What decisions should you be making, and what do you need to know to make them? Explore the state of the healthcare industry and its outlook for next year by visiting advisory.com/HealthCare2023.

In this episode, Radio Advisory is LIVE at Advisory Board’s 2022 Service Line Summit in St. Louis. Host Rachel Woods invites Advisory Board expert Fanta Cherif, Optum Rx senior director of pipeline and drug surveillance Bill Dreitlein, and Pear Therapeutics chief medical officer and head of development Dr. Yuri Marcich to have a gamified conversation about disruptive clinical products and how organizations can prepare for and embrace next-generation diagnostics and therapeutics.

Links:

• Q&A: Why a disruptive therapy is more consequential than an innovative one
• Disruptive therapeutics and diagnostics cheat sheets
• 3 disruptive behavioral health therapeutics—and what they mean for health equity

As we emerge from the global pandemic, healthcare is restructuring. What decisions should you be making, and what do you need to know to make them? Explore the state of the healthcare industry and its outlook for next year by visiting advisory.com/HealthCare2023.

Advisory Board is a subsidiary of Optum. All Advisory Board research, expert perspectives, and recommendations remain independent.

More and more health plans are shifting away from their traditional “risk aggregator” roles and ushering in a new era of payer-provider relationships. In this episode, Rachel (Rae) Woods invites health plan, workforce and value-based care experts Mallory Kirby, Eliza Dailey, and Katie Everts to explain payvider relationships, why they’re becoming more common, and how to determine if becoming a payvider partnership is feasible for your organization.

Links:

• Ep. 127: How health insurers are reinventing themselves

As we emerge from the global pandemic, healthcare is restructuring. What decisions should you be making, and what do you need to know to make them? Explore the state of the healthcare industry and its outlook for next year by visiting advisory.com/HealthCare2023.

Equity is top of mind for health leaders—but revelations about bias in artificial intelligence is giving increasing cause for concern. In this episode host Rachel (Rae) Woods invites Microsoft’s Director for Artificial Intelligence Tom Lawry to discuss how bias creeps into AI. Together, they discuss the ethical principles leaders can adopt to ensure AI is used responsibly, and what we can all do to make intelligent systems more equitable.

Tom Lawry is the author of Hacking Healthcare, which details lessons learned from AI’s role during global pandemic and how to apply this knowledge to healthcare's other big challenges – including inequity.

Links:

• [Tom's book] Hacking Healthcare: How AI and the Intelligence Revolution Will Reboot an Ailing System
• AI in healthcare
• What does the future of AI in cancer care look like? Here are 3 global start-ups that we're watching to decide.
• Prep for a new era of AI and analytics: 5 insights from Advisory Board's 2022 AI and analytics survey
• Ep. 103: What an equitable organization looks like and how yours can get there
• Our Technology playlist
• Our Health Equity and Racism playlist

As we emerge from the global pandemic, healthcare is restructuring. What decisions should you be making, and what do you need to know to make them? Explore the state of the healthcare industry and its outlook for next year by visiting advisory.com/HealthCare2023.