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Healthcare organizations continually face emerging trends and new challenges threatening current business models and competitive positioning.
Filtering out the noise and focusing on what is most important and impactful is complicated, and if not done thoughtfully, can inform misguided business decisions. Our insights simplify the complex and drive focus on the most relevant strategic and operational factors.
Healthcare Industry Trend
Rise of Retail Health
Consumers will prioritize lower cost and more convenient care options in 2024, which will drive use to retail healthcare and...
Healthcare Industry Trend
Achieving the Payer Mega-Merger
Despite the failure of the Cigna-Humana merger in 2023, this year will see major payers make major moves to capture...
Healthcare Industry Trend
Monitoring the HATCo Effect
As HATCo (Health Assurance Transformation Corp) embarks on an uncharted path to health system transformation, stakeholders across the continuum will...
Healthcare Industry Trend
Proving VBC Enablement
The VBC enablement market is reaching a saturation point. This will be the year that separates proven models and scalable...
Healthcare Industry Trend
VBC Push from Risant Health
2024 will showcase the first tangible demonstration of Risant Health’s value-based care vision outside of its core markets, through the...
Healthcare Industry Trend
Growing Cross-Market Mergers
This year will see more cross-market mergers between health systems in pursuit of significant cost savings, despite a growing body...
Healthcare Industry Trend
Pursuit of Vertical Integration
Payers will continue to pursue owning a diversified set of care delivery assets, while providers will continue to pursue more...
Healthcare Industry Trend
Lasting Effects of GLP1s
Utilization trends for GLP1s (glucagon-like peptides, used to treat diabetes and sometimes obesity) will continue to increase in 2024, adding...
Healthcare Industry Trend
Influence on the 2024 Election
In 2024, candidate platforms on health care issues such as affordability and access to mental health will emerge as a...
Six-Month Recap: 2023 March Healthcare Classic
As we enter Quarter 4, it’s time for a fresh analysis of how the top trends from the 2023 March...
Three-Month Recap: 2023 March Healthcare Classic
It’s already time for the three-month March Healthcare Classic recap, where we evaluate how the top four trends are impacting...
Round 4 & Final Results: Pessimism v. Optimism
Welcome to the finals! We are down to the Top Four remaining contenders in this tournament: Cost Cutting Strategies –...
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ro3’s annual March Healthcare Classic
ro3’s annual March Healthcare Classic compares the year’s most impactful healthcare trends as they face off in a competitive bracket to reveal what industry trends reign supreme.
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