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Understand the three transformative shifts impacting healthcare. Learn how leaders can refine their strategies to ensure equitable access and outcomes — and position their business for long-term success.

3 paradigm shifts in healthcare: Cheat sheet series

Advanced technologies like AI are on track to becoming an integral part of the care team. Discover how to use AI to address persistent workforce challenges and keep clinicians working top-of-license.

Healthcare in 2025, part 2: How AI is shaping care team roles

Historically, the EHR data conversion process has been tedious, error prone, and costly. But advance planning can mitigate risks, streamline workflows, and safeguard patient data.

4 questions to ask yourself before an EHR data conversion

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.

Transformative, high-cost therapies and diagnostics can offer patients truly tailored treatment. Gain insight into how personalized therapies are creating a need for new ways to finance and deliver care.

Healthcare in 2025, part 3: How high-cost therapies are changing how we finance care

3 paradigm shifts in healthcare: Cheat sheet series

CMS is ending two of its value-based primary care models earlier than planned. This leaves provider executives asking a major but fundamental question: Where do we go from here?

CMS is ending two primary care models early. Here’s what to do next.

Research

Redefining musculoskeletal care: Appropriate, personalized, and value-driven solutions

Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions impose a significant burden on patients and the healthcare system. Often fragmented care and an overreliance on imaging and surgical interventions limits effective outcomes and exacerbates financial strain. Use this eBook to help understand where these challenges persist in the status quo and how to drive more accessible, value-driven MSK care.

Discover how to prove to payers that your intervention reduces the total cost of care (TCOC) with a deep dive into the most effective evaluation method and the success story of virtual GI clinic Oshi Health.

You’ve figured out a way to reduce care costs. Now, prove it to payers.

Get clinical benchmarks and five recommendations to help health plans optimize their cost management strategies for enhanced care quality and cost efficiency.

5 ways to leverage clinical benchmarks to manage health plan costs

Market Insights

5 key insights into today's health plan CMO

We spoke directly with health plan chief medical officers to understand how the CMO role is evolving, what these leaders are prioritizing, and how external partners can engage more effectively.

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.

Understand your customer: Health plans

Understand how to prepare for an electronic health record (EHR) switch, the challenges your organization may face in the process, and how to measure success.

How to effectively prepare for (and implement) an EHR switch

Historically, the EHR data conversion process has been tedious, error prone, and costly. But advance planning can mitigate risks, streamline workflows, and safeguard patient data.

4 questions to ask yourself before an EHR data conversion

Market Insights

Survey insights: What to know about the clinician workforce today

Advisory Board and LocumTenens.com asked over 700 physicians and advanced practice providers about job satisfaction and work preferences. Use our findings to enhance your recruitment and retention strategies.

Presentations and workshops

Whether you're looking for topical presentations or dedicated focus on a challenge or initiative, our expert support gives you access to healthcare experts in different ways to match your time and needs. Learn more.

Keep a pulse on evolving market dynamics & adapt your strategy

State of the healthcare industry | Presentation
Discuss the market forces leaders should watch and the strategic bets to navigate the industry’s future structure.
The VBC roadmap: Case studies of successful health systems | Presentation
Many health system leaders hesitate to deepen their commitment to value-based care (VBC) because of a lack of consistently successful examples. But our research identified several effective plan-provider models worth emulating. This study dissects the strategies of four organizations that are deep in their VBC journey, highlighting the practices key to their success. During this presentation, you will gain actionable insights on how successful health systems moved from being a VBC dabbler to VBC powerhouse.
Assess your organization's performance in VBC | Workshop
What is your organization’s role and strategy in value-based care (VBC) strategy? Explore the latest developments in value-based care, consider what role your organization should play, and go through a guided analysis to identify how you can help achieve a successful future state of value-based care and meaningful risk.
Value-based care, demystified | Presentation
Learn current perspectives on risk-based payment models, potential hurdles, and how health plans and providers can partner to achieve success in value-based care.
Navigating AI in healthcare | Presentation
Equip your leaders with an understanding of artificial intelligence (AI), the potential benefits these technologies offer, the unique challenges AI presents in healthcare, and how organizations, leaders, and teams should respond to AI today.

Elevate your leadership capabilities

Leading the workforce of the future | Workshop
Healthcare organizations cannot afford to buy their way out of today’s workforce challenges of high turnover and burnout. Effective leaders are one of the most powerful levers to retain and engage employees and deliver on organizational goals. Our workshops prepare leaders with critical skills through hands-on and interactive problem-solving of your biggest challenges. Organizations may select one of the following topic areas per workshop. We recommend organizations partner with us through a tailored learning journey incorporating multiple workshops:
- Impact through influence
- Championing change
- Leader sustainability
- Enhancing interprofessional collaboration
- Engaging the workforce of the future
- Navigating uncertainty

Events and webinars

2025 summit series

Reimagine healthcare: 3 transformation imperatives

The healthcare industry is facing a transformative moment. As leaders, it’s up to you to shape how your organizations approach investment and partnership decisions, care delivery, and technology. Being intentional about these will ensure a viable, efficient, and patient-centered healthcare ecosystem.

For this summit series, Advisory Board will bring together executive teams from across the industry in four exciting destinations. You will be equipped with pertinent insights and action steps to take back home.

Topics include:

Adapt to new market dynamics
Build tomorrow’s care model today
Embrace digital competencies

Browse the full agenda, learn more, and register.

Dates and locations

October 7-8 | Chicago, IL
November 18-19 | Nashville, TN
December 9-10 | Virtual

2025 roundtables

How to deliver the next era of VBC | October 15-16 | Washington, D.C.

Learn more or register

2025 webinars

Join one of our 70+ annual webinars to learn about the latest healthcare industry trends and topics.

2025 medical group landscape update
Broaden your definition of the care team
Leadership development webinar series
2025 specialty care market trends series: Oncology, cardiovascular, infusion, women’s health, and more
AI in healthcare
The state of the industry heading into 2026

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Leadership building through Advisory Board Fellowship

Healthcare is a rapidly changing industry to which leaders must constantly adapt. Medical group executives are critical leaders in this change, as they play a role in strategic decision-making, operational execution, and garnering physician buy-in and support.

Medical group executives play a range of roles in their groups’ leadership teams. Some design the organization’s strategy, while others are more involved in the finances or operational execution. But all medical group executives, regardless of their title, should have a pulse on industry trends and motivate their teams to deliver on their strategic vision.

Advisory Board Fellowship is designed to help executives navigate the complexities of the healthcare industry and develop the capacity to effectively advance their organizational performance. Approximately half of all participants are medical group executives.

Participating leaders leverage the Practicum Project to positively impact finance, operations, quality, safety, and patient experience.

Upcoming Cohorts

Fall 2025 Launch

September 10-12 | Washington, D.C.

Learn more about our custom research offering

Custom research

Gain a competitive edge by partnering with Advisory Board researchers to deliver specific answers to your most pressing questions. Our custom research offering brings together our proven research methodology, industry expertise, and a deep understanding of your organization, equipping you with the tools and insights needed to refine your strategies and make informed decisions.

Custom research scoped to your specific need

We design custom research engagements using a variety of our capabilities to ensure the insights and tools we provide help you act on your top priorities. Sample capabilities include:

Qualitative interviews to uncover how leading organizations and your competitors are approaching their top strategies.
Quantitative surveys to bring you the numbers that illuminate key trends externally or internally to your organization.
Custom benchmarking to compare yourself to peer organizations and identify top strengths and improvement opportunities.
Customer insights to improve your market penetration and customer experience.

Opportunities for your organization in 2025

Customized best-practice research to drive organizational performance assessments and needs diagnoses.
Cheat sheets and discussion guides to facilitate productive conversations on issues your customers care about most.
Stakeholder insight analyses giving you a deeper understanding of your key stakeholders, their priorities, challenges, and decision drivers.
Custom growth driver assessments that pair qualitative and quantitative insights to identify the market forces that influence demand for particular services and offerings.

Our products and services

Research Membership

Data-driven, actionable insights to inform decisions

Learn from more than 200 Advisory Board experts
Access over 300 new research deliverables each year
Leverage our forecasting tools to support strategic planning

Custom Research

Insight-driven answers and tailored guidance

Get actionable insights, contextualized to your organization's challenges and priorities
Inform your strategy with top emerging market and industry trends
Request extensive research across topics that span the entire healthcare ecosystem

Advisory Board Events

Opportunities to network, learn, and grow your expertise

Experience agendas aligned to your team's greatest challenges
Tackle market challenges by collaborating with cross-sector research experts
Connect and network with leading healthcare decision-makers

Expert Support

Expert advice and actionable guidance for healthcare executives

Host insightful presentations for your teams or customers across relevant topics
Get individualized support from our experts
Overcome hurdles and energize stalled projects with workshops led by our experts

Advisory Board Fellowship

Enterprise Leadership solution to equip leaders to thrive in complexity

Implement strategic leadership shifts proven to drive business outcomes more effectively
Get support on critical priorities from diverse industry peers and executive coaches
Expand personal and team capacity to address persistent challenges

Sponsorship

Opportunities to showcase your brand, product, and expertise

Leverage our tools, tactics, and distribution channels to engage target audiences
Grow your brand awareness
Generate leads for your organization