Every day, Advisory Board researchers comb through the latest health care news, study policy proposals, and convene with industry experts and executives to identify thought-provoking, unconventional solutions to health care's greatest challenges. Our new quarterly digest, Executive Insights, is the culmination of their efforts.
Read the research, insights, and opinion pieces below—or members can download a PDF of the magazine—to see our takes on the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the latest analysis of the Biden administration's health policy, new developments in digital health, and strategies for adapting to the changing health care workforce.
For the past 18 months, most health care leaders have been frantically looking at thehere and now: How do we make it past today, this week, this month? But over the pastmonth or so, that mindset seems to have changed. For the first time in a year and ahalf, leaders are starting to think about the future. How has the pandemic changedthe industry for good? What unexpected shifts will manifest? And most important:How has the balance of power changed? It reminds me of the famous photograph ofChurchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at Yalta, negotiating the parameters of the postwarorder, each world leader eyeing each other nervously, victorious but not at all certainthat the world they’re creating will be any better or more secure than the pre-war era.
I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that we’re standing on a similar precipice. Consumerexpectations on how they should receive care are now forever tilted in favor of safer,faster, more-convenient options. Physicians have an unprecedented number ofsuitors looking to them to solve the problems of cost, quality, and access. Health careleaders have come to realize that the challenge of health equity is their mandate tosolve. And as we all know, digital health took a giant leap forward in the past year.
In this issue, we turn our gaze to the future. Rachel Woods walks us through theCEO’s playbook for addressing health equity from the top down in any givenorganization. Nick Cericola and Rishi Sachdev take a look at the huge demographicshifts the United States can expect over the next decade and highlight someunexpected consequences of the massive wealth transfer that is all but inevitable.And Yulan Egan walks us through our top conclusions from this year’s Advisory BoardState of the Union. Hopefully you’ll be able to join one of our virtual presentations ofthat material this summer.
Christopher Kerns
Executive Editor and Vice President
Below, you'll find everything inside the Spring 2021 Executive Insights quarterly broken down across five topics: Strategy, Digital Health, Workforce, the Pandemic, and Health Policy.
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