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Specialty care

We focus on specialty care areas that correlate with key service lines, including cardiovascular, oncology, and orthopedics. We also research service lines experiencing fundamental changes in how care is delivered, including obstetrics, gynecology, radiology, neurology, infusion, and diabetes and obesity treatment and management.

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All your specialty care market trends

What are the healthcare industry and specialty care changes you should pay attention to? We pulled together the top trends and innovations for key specialties and compiled them in a ready-to-present format, with scripting notes included.

Research

Pathways to nationwide value-based payment in oncology

How could nationwide value-based payment for cancer care become a reality in the next 5 to 10 years? We’ve envisioned three scenarios of how it could happen, what the future would look like, and what it would mean for major healthcare stakeholders.

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Tackle these challenges

Whether you are creating, restructuring, leading, or optimizing service lines, you need a unique skill set and deep understanding of specialty care. Our research is designed to help you:

Be fluent in the key drivers influencing where, how, and how much specialty care is delivered today.
Understand the differences between service lines, institutes, and centers of excellence, and which leadership structures are optimal for your organization.
Improve service line performance with guidance in everything from assessing clinician supply to rationalizing services to optimizing systemness.

Cancer care is expensive, complex, and evolving rapidly. We help your team focus on caring for patients by:

Making it easy to keep tabs on the most important changes in the industry – and how to talk with other stakeholders about them.
Simplifying value-based payment pilots, criteria, and tactics for success.
Providing ready-to-use toolkits on everything from growth to screening to tumor site strategy.

An aging population and long COVID are driving growth in demand for both inpatient and outpatient CV care, but a supply shortage is straining many programs and their ability to deliver accessible care. Our research gets to the heart of the challenges:

Monitor market changes, including our volume forecasts and takes on the top drivers of change impacting CV care.
Maximize efficiency and cost control in CV care without burning out clinicians.
Access ready-to-use toolkits to improve heart failure, structural heart, arrhythmia, ambulatory, and CV telehealth programs.

The imaging market is in a period of growth, but health systems and radiology practices must deal with a shift toward freestanding imaging centers, private equity interest, and workforce shortages.

Keep tabs on the top trends impacting the imaging market.
Explore how imaging services are distributed across various sites of care within your market or other region of interest.

Women’s services encompass a broad and undefined umbrella, spanning far beyond OB/GYN care. Our women's health research helps leaders work across specialties to improve outcomes for women:

Understand the top trends and emerging ideas in maternal and reproductive care.
Get notes on other stakeholders’ priorities, and suggestions on how to have productive conversations with them.
Read our analysis of 19 health conditions that present opportunities to improve women’s health care delivery.
Learn how healthcare industry stakeholders can address disparities that shape health outcomes for women.

Aging populations are driving up utilization while care management efforts bring utilization down. Simultaneously, innovations and payer coverage drive procedural shifts away from the hospital. We help you slice through the noise by:

Highlighting surgical innovations and their impacts on procedural care.
Forecasting volumes and providing Medicare benchmarks to help you understand performance today while setting your strategy for the future.
Outlining best practices for robotic surgery, weight management, and digestive health program development.
Predicting what the ASC landscape will look like in the future.

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Expert Insight

The business case for investing in women’s specialty care

Women's health is more than just ob/gyn care. Given that women represent 58% of all specialty care use and utilize 15% more specialty care services than men, providers have the opportunity to capture market share and increase downstream revenue by taking a comprehensive approach to women’s health. Find out how addressing the unique needs of women can lead to financial success.

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Will hospital volumes ever return to what they were?

A "new normal" for hospital volumes has arrived, and health systems must navigate the challenges of changing utilization and service line closures. Dive into the data to learn why some volumes are unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels and discover practical steps that health systems can take to address these losses and ensure long-term sustainability.

Case Study

How St. Cloud ENT partnered with an ASC to improve sleep apnea outcomes and grow surgical services

St. Cloud ENT partnered with an ambulatory surgery center (ASC), several sleep clinics, and a local hospital to make the Inspire hypoglossal nerve stimulation procedure available to obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients who are unable to tolerate CPAP therapy. Along with a dedicated staff that conducts pre-consultation patient screenings to identify patients who are eligible for the implant, these partnerships increase efficiency and financial viability, leaving more time for providers to see patients and perform other in-clinic duties.

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How CoxHealth grew their Inspire program to meet surging demand

To successfully meet surging patient demand for surgical solutions to sleep apnea, CoxHealth took a whole-system, collaborative approach to their Inspire implant program. Find out how CoxHealth created a foundation for future program growth by ensuring patients are seen and treated as quickly as possible, streamlining procedural efficiencies, and cultivating cross-service line collaboration.

Go deeper on our latest insights

Cardiovascular

Learn about innovations and best practices in CV care.

Clinical innovation

Get our take on how emerging innovations will impact specialty care.

Diabetes

Optimize your diabetes and obesity services strategy.

Imaging

Learn about key challenges and opportunities in imaging.

Neurosciences

Explore trends and disruption in neurosciences.

Oncology

Improve cancer patient care and optimize your oncology offerings.

Orthopedics

Review trends in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases.

Service line strategy

Access our resources for improving service line performance.

Women's health

Improve women’s health outcomes across specialties and stakeholders.

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We help leaders and future leaders in the healthcare industry work smarter and faster by providing provocative insights, actionable strategies, and practical tools to support execution.

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