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Market trends and growth strategy

Each year, Advisory Board scans the market to identify the trends we think will cause the most disruption or provide the best opportunities. Alongside our market trends work, we update the Market Scenario Planner each year for the latest 5- and 10-year forecasts, and generate service line research to highlight the implications of our forecasts.

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Service line benchmark grids

Use our service line benchmark grids to assess your service line’s program development across a variety of attributes. See grids for cancer, cardiovascular, neurosciences, obstetrics and gynecology, and orthopedics service lines.

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Use the Market Scenario Planner to instantly access the current, five-, and 10- year estimates of patient volumes and growth rates

Our Market Scenario Planner shows you the types of services patients in your market are expected to use and allows you to customize projections according to five key growth drivers.

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Ready-to-use specialty care market trends slides

What are the health care industry and specialty care changes you should pay attention to? We’ve pulled together the top trends and innovations for key specialties and compiled them in a ready-to-present format. Simply use the entire decks or insert the slides of your choice into your next presentation to your board, C-suite, or your team.

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Understand your customer: Health plans

Get insight into the key trends in the health plan market and learn how to better understand your customers, help them meet their goals, and build lasting partnerships.

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Survey results: Insights on health system purchasing today

Learn how health systems are changing how they define product value with insights from more than 50 leaders in value analysis committees (VACs) and pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committees.

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What’s driving — or slowing — service line growth?

Get an overview of the volume outlooks, key drivers, and strategic imperatives for six key service lines and specialty care areas in our comprehensive, convenient cheat sheets.

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Survey results: Insights on health system purchasing today

Learn how health systems are changing how they define product value with insights from more than 50 leaders in value analysis committees (VACs) and pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committees.

Cheat Sheet

What’s driving — or slowing — service line growth?

Get an overview of the volume outlooks, key drivers, and strategic imperatives for six key service lines and specialty care areas in our comprehensive, convenient cheat sheets.

Cheat Sheet

Cardiovascular service line outlook – 2025

Get our predictions on key drivers, volume outlooks, and strategic imperatives that are driving (or slowing) growth in cardiovascular service lines.

Expert Insight

GLP-1 use is surging. How will that impact bariatric surgery?

Demand for bariatric surgery has fallen across U.S. hospitals due to growing use of GLP-1 drugs. Learn why we expect bariatric surgery volumes to drop by an additional 22% over the next five years.

Expert Insight

Congress is weighing spending cuts. How will they impact healthcare?

Congressional budget resolutions could cut billions from healthcare programs. Dive into the specifics of these cuts and their potential impact on Medicaid, Medicare, the ACA Marketplaces, and more.

Expert Insight

Recent rise in procedural volumes masks demographic-based utilization projections

As healthcare volumes stabilize after the pandemic, familiar demographic factors are set to shape the future of utilization. With an aging population and a smaller, sicker younger generation, health systems will face costlier and more complex volume growth. Learn how health system leaders can proactively address these trends and optimize performance for sustainable success.

Research

Survey results: Insights on health system purchasing today

Learn how health systems are changing how they define product value with insights from more than 50 leaders in value analysis committees (VACs) and pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committees.

Expert Insight

How purchasers are tackling the affordability crisis of high-cost drugs

Innovation in drug development is making extraordinary (but high-cost) therapies available. To build foundations for affordable patient access, purchasers are trying aggressive cost management strategies that upend drug business norms, from Medicare’s inaugural year of price negotiation to health plans’ restructuring of PBM contracts.

Case Study

How Steindler Orthopedic improved joint replacements with digital surgical technologies

Learn how Steindler Orthopedic Clinic leveraged the VELYS™ Enabling Tech portfolio and achieved more precise surgeries, improved patient outcomes, and better operational efficiency.

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Ready-to-Use Slides

3 major trends shaping today's obesity care market

Stay ahead of the curve with these ready-to-use slides breaking down the biggest trends impacting the obesity care market.  Learn about the state of obesity care today and how to position your organization for future success.

Ready-to-Use Slides

The top 10 trends impacting health systems in 2025

Learn about the 10 major trends impacting health systems next year — from ongoing financial pressures to Medicare Advantage. Download these ready-to-use slides to get up to speed on what health system leaders should be watching.

Ready-to-Use Slides

3 major trends shaping today's orthopedic and spine care market

Our ready-to-use slide presentation equips leaders with strategic insights on the major trends impacting U.S. orthopedic and spine care delivery. Included are market growth forecasts, site-of-care shift projections, demographic trends, and the top challenges and opportunities of each trend.

Ready-to-Use Slides

Market outlook for individual and small group health insurance

Stay informed with the latest insights into the individual and small group health insurance markets. This ready-to-use slide deck highlights key developments, market dynamics, plan performance, consumer trends, and actionable strategies to respond to these changing markets.

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Vidal leads Advisory Board's hospital and health system research for executives of healthcare organizations both in the US and abroad.

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Market trends and growth strategy

Service line benchmark grids

Use the Market Scenario Planner to instantly access the current, five-, and 10- year estimates of patient volumes and growth rates

Ready-to-use specialty care market trends slides

Understand your customer: Health plans

Survey results: Insights on health system purchasing today

What’s driving — or slowing — service line growth?

Survey results: Insights on health system purchasing today

What’s driving — or slowing — service line growth?

Cardiovascular service line outlook – 2025

GLP-1 use is surging. How will that impact bariatric surgery?

Congress is weighing spending cuts. How will they impact healthcare?

Recent rise in procedural volumes masks demographic-based utilization projections

Survey results: Insights on health system purchasing today

How purchasers are tackling the affordability crisis of high-cost drugs

How Steindler Orthopedic improved joint replacements with digital surgical technologies

3 major trends shaping today's obesity care market

The top 10 trends impacting health systems in 2025

3 major trends shaping today's orthopedic and spine care market

Market outlook for individual and small group health insurance

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