Environmental Trends

Using insights on humanizing brand experience, boards can better engage health care consumers and maintain and build trust in a post-COVID-19 world.
Continued disruption will require health care boards to adapt their governance models to adapt to the unprecedented times.
Facing a new reality, health care providers will need to make major changes in care models, cost structure and the use of digital technology to recover.
As the health care field moves from response to recovery, strategic and innovative thinkers have started to share their insights and plans for the road ahead.
Continued changes in health care, both evolutionary and revolutionary, will require a steady hand and an open mind.
Latest findings point to several positive trends and opportunities for improving governance structures, practices and performance. The report includes expert commentary and discussion questions for board reflection.
Consumerism, personalized medicine, digital technology and artificial intelligence are fundamentally changing the way health care is purchased, delivered and organized.
Download the 2018-2023 report. In the new environment, leaders must stay abreast of the trends highlighted in Futurescan to successfully move ahead on the long road toward value-based healthcare.
The inspiring “Bridging Worlds” roadmap is just one of many resources SHSMD offers its members in healthcare planning, marketing, communications, physician relations, and business development.