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Ambulatory care

As ambulatory care continues to experience strong growth rates, providers are evaluating their outpatient networks and weighing their next opportunities. At the same time, suppliers and payers need to plan for shifts in demand, revenue, and sites of care to best position their businesses. Our research explores the market forces driving ambulatory care growth and helps stakeholders size new opportunities and mitigate emerging disruptions.

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Setting up your ambulatory network for the future

As care delivery evolves across diverse sites, providers and their partners are planning their future ambulatory footprints. Learn four tactics to position your ambulatory business for success.

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How Boulder Community Health transformed its primary care service line

Learn how Boulder Community Health used a collaborative approach to transform its primary care service line, increase access to care, improve the patient experience, and achieve financial growth.

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Building the right ASC strategy for your organization

Health systems are facing critical decisions about the future of their surgical care businesses, including which services to offer in ASCs, how to mix services across locations, and what ownership/partnership structure to pursue. This decision guide offers a checklist of questions tailored to your unique needs and market, empowering you to navigate these complex decisions with confidence.

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Setting up your ambulatory network for the future

As care delivery evolves across diverse sites, providers and their partners are planning their future ambulatory footprints. Learn four tactics to position your ambulatory business for success.

Podcast

268: Create an ambulatory care network that’s smarter — not just bigger

Improve ambulatory efficiency before expanding sites. Smart growth means better operations, clinician alignment, and partnerships (yes, even with your competitors).

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Interactive maps: Where (and which) service lines have growth potential

Our interactive maps offer data-driven insights into market dynamics, highlighting areas for potential expansion based on market size, growth rates, and concentration.

Report

Setting up your ambulatory network for the future

As care delivery evolves across diverse sites, providers and their partners are planning their future ambulatory footprints. Learn four tactics to position your ambulatory business for success.

Expert Insight

2 strategies to reimagine physician panels and improve care delivery

Learn how to enhance patient care and optimize revenue by tailoring provider capacity with risk-adjusted models and minimizing referral leakage.

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Ep. 238: Is your ambulatory strategy stuck in 2015?

In this episode, host Rachel Woods invites Advisory Board experts Jordan Peterson and Nick Hula to break down why ambulatory strategy must be a top priority in 2025—and why legacy strategies are no longer sufficient. Throughout the conversation they unpack what ambulatory strategy actually means, and why a focus on ambulatory capabilities—not sites of care—is the key to maximizing your ambulatory investments.

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Ep. 238: Is your ambulatory strategy stuck in 2015?

Expert Insight

Health systems must confront the eroding legacy hospital business model

The standard playbook for hospital profitability is no longer sufficient, as the industry faces converging challenges that threaten financial stability. From shifting volume and payer-mix, to weakening non-core revenue sources, hospitals must adapt to survive.

Research

How 17 procedures are shifting to outpatient delivery in over 20 countries

The proportion of procedures delivered on a same-day basis is increasing around the world, but wide variation still exists between countries. Explore the site-of-care data on 17 key procedures in over 20 countries. Use this information to benchmark your own rates, incorporate the data into your clinical services plans, and identify which countries to look to for emerging clinical evidence.

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Interactive maps: Where (and which) service lines have growth potential

Our interactive maps offer data-driven insights into market dynamics, highlighting areas for potential expansion based on market size, growth rates, and concentration.

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6 ways to reduce referral leakage from primary to specialty care

In the highly competitive healthcare landscape, preventing referral leakage is crucial for health systems to maintain network integrity and capture revenue. Discover six tactics to effectively manage referral leakage from primary to specialty care and ensure that referrals stay within your network.

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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.

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Setting up your ambulatory network for the future

As care delivery evolves across diverse sites, providers and their partners are planning their future ambulatory footprints. Learn four tactics to position your ambulatory business for success.

Case Study

How one health system achieved a 50% increase in post-discharge follow-up

Organizations must align provider schedules with organizational priorities if they want to achieve their access goals. Find out how one health system used a three-step approach to hardwire post-discharge appointments into their providers’ schedules to increase patient follow-up care.

Our Take

Provider availability: A new way to measure access for medical groups

Medical groups are realizing that an access strategy focused solely on appointment availability is no longer enough. This report introduces the concept of "provider availability" as a new access standard that considers the evolving needs of patients and providers. Discover why prioritizing provider availability is crucial for staying competitive and learn two practical steps to recalibrate your access strategy.

Case Study

How to reduce in-basket overload by 34%, in 4 steps

Unmanageable in-basket volumes can be a significant burden for healthcare providers. Find out how one health system successfully addressed this issue with a four-step process that reduced message quantity, protected provider time, and improved overall efficiency.

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Research consultant, Life sciences, pharmacy, and diagnostics research

Nick researches how leaders throughout the healthcare industry can better understand each other's priorities and benefit from valuable cross-sector partnerships.

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Ambulatory care

Setting up your ambulatory network for the future

How Boulder Community Health transformed its primary care service line

Building the right ASC strategy for your organization

Setting up your ambulatory network for the future

268: Create an ambulatory care network that’s smarter — not just bigger

Interactive maps: Where (and which) service lines have growth potential

Setting up your ambulatory network for the future

2 strategies to reimagine physician panels and improve care delivery

Ep. 238: Is your ambulatory strategy stuck in 2015?

Ep. 238: Is your ambulatory strategy stuck in 2015?

Health systems must confront the eroding legacy hospital business model

How 17 procedures are shifting to outpatient delivery in over 20 countries

Interactive maps: Where (and which) service lines have growth potential

6 ways to reduce referral leakage from primary to specialty care

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

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Setting up your ambulatory network for the future

How one health system achieved a 50% increase in post-discharge follow-up

Provider availability: A new way to measure access for medical groups

How to reduce in-basket overload by 34%, in 4 steps

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