Futurescan: Healthcare Trends and Implications

Softbound, 44 pages
Size: 11" x 8"
ISBN 0980029015
9780980029017
Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development / Health Administration Press
January 2008
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Use this guide to enrich and enliven discussions about your organization’s strategic priorities. It's loaded with information that will fuel strategic planning.

Whether it’s responding to the increasingly consumer-driven market, navigating the options for electronic medical records, planning for pay-for-performance and the new reimbursement strategies, or solving nursing challenges both today and in the future, this year’s Futurescan will help you make the right decisions.

Preparing for the future in the world of healthcare delivery gets tougher every year. The expert insight contained in these pages is supported by data from survey responses from over 1,600 healthcare leaders across the country.

The annual publication of Futurescan brings together an expert panel of well-known healthcare leaders to highlight the important trends and their implications in healthcare. Written by an expert panel of well-known healthcare leaders, Futurescan highlights eight key trends and their implications for healthcare organizations. Authorities offer their insights on the hottest topics in healthcare including these trends:

Policymaker focus on healthcare coverage, quality, and spending
Volatility in overall credit quality in the healthcare sector
The narrowing of tax exemption standards for nonprofit hospitals
State reform of public programs and private insurance markets
The need for business models that support new technologies
Hospital employment of physicians
Increased demands for governance excellence
Greater pressure exerted by unions

The Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development (SHSMD) is the nation's largest healthcare association dedicated to strategy, planning, marketing and communications professionals. The Society was formed as a result of the merger of the AHA American Society for Health Care Marketing and Public Relations (founded in 1964) and the AHA Society for Healthcare Planning and Marketing (founded in 1977). The Society is a Personal Membership Group of the American Hospital Association (AHA). Society members have many titles and backgrounds. A network composed of professionals from all spectrums of the healthcare field:

Hospitals
Healthcare systems and networks
Advertising/public relations agencies
Consultants
Physician groups
Physician practice management
Service providers

A Society representing a wide variety of disciplines:

Marketing
Public Relations
Communications
Business development
Strategic planning
Government affairs
Physician relations
Public affairs
Sales

Futurescan is co-sponsored by the American College of Healthcare Executives, Solucient, and VHA Inc.

Founded in 1933, the American College of Healthcare Executives is an international professional society of 30,000 healthcare executives who lead our nation's hospitals, healthcare systems, and other healthcare organizations. ACHE is known for its prestigious credentialing and educational programs and its annual Congress on Healthcare Management, which draws more than 4,000 participants each year. Health Administration Press is a division of the Foundation of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). ACHE is an international professional society of 30,000 healthcare executives who lead our nation's hospitals, healthcare systems, and other healthcare organizations.

ACHE is known for its prestigious credentialing and educational programs and its annual Congress on Healthcare Management, which draws more than 4,000 participants each year. ACHE is also known for its magazine, Healthcare Executive, as well as its groundbreaking research and career development and public policy programs. Through such efforts, ACHE works toward its goal of being the premier professional society for healthcare leaders by providing exceptional value to its members. Founded in 1972 with support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Health Administration Press has grown from a small office on the campus of the University of Michigan to one of the largest publishers of books and journals on all aspects of health services management, including textbooks for use in college and university courses. Now located in downtown Chicago, the Press also publishes two journals, the Journal of Healthcare Management and Frontiers of Health Services Management

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