Becker's Healthcare January 10, 2025
Health systems begin 2025 emerging from a half-decade of crisis management. Now is the time for executive teams to lift their heads from quarterly survival and make bets on their long-term future.
When they lift their heads, CEOs, executive teams and boards will see a landscape more crowded than ever with challenges and opportunities: demographic shifts, workforce instability, dramatic increases in vertical and horizontal consolidation, a disgruntled consumer base frequently subjected to misinformation, looming policy questions under a new administration, and healthcare spending that continues to rise — particularly in hospital settings. These variables demand a more sophisticated approach to strategy with bigger bets than might have worked in the past, according to David Willis, principal in the strategy practice...