Shannon Germain Farraher

Cloud is transforming healthcare by enabling smarter, faster, and more secure care delivery — but challenges such as security, interoperability, and clinician burnout still demand bold innovation.

Forrester’s new interactive data summary of its Healthcare Practitioners Survey, 2024, helps healthcare leaders and organizations make better data-driven decisions.

Adaptability and agility will differentiate healthcare organizations that flourish amid volatility. Learn how in this preview of our new report, “Healthcare Leaders: How To Thrive Through Volatility.”

Steering through a maelstrom of uncertainty and risk in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape requires resilient leaders who will adapt strategies centered on the human experience. Advancements in AI and the widespread availability of medical information are compelling healthcare provider organizations to reassess how they engage with customers and employees. They are exploring creative ways to reposition themselves and demonstrate steadiness in an increasingly concentrated industry.

Healthcare organizations are investing heavily in technology, but these investments alone won’t optimize clinical workflows or enhance customer experiences. The missing element: clinical intelligence.

Collaboration emerged as a key theme for unlocking the power of emerging technology and tackling tough challenges for healthcare at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference for 2025. Get more of our key takeaways here.

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) announced it will go private in a $10 billion deal with Sycamore Partners. It comes at a crucial time for Walgreens, which faces declining sales, profitability issues, and scrutiny for its role in the opioid crisis. The formation of WBA in 2014 was intended to deliver a wider range of products and services globally and become a leading player in the international healthcare retail industry.

Just 56% of consumers trust their health insurer to act in their best interest, putting trust in US health insurers at a three-year low during a watershed moment for the industry. Insurers that create value for customers and earn their trust reap considerable benefits.

The ride for healthcare leaders is about to get wild. Before the election, healthcare stood at a critical precipice. Now the industry is bracing for a reckoning under the second Trump administration.

At the ICD Media Group’s Healthcare Burnout Symposium, healthcare thought leaders dove into the origins of and continuing reasons for clinician burnout. Read this blog to learn three key issues to consider in confronting clinician burnout at your organization.

Opaque experiences and complex jargon have eroded consumer confidence and incentivized some to leave brands behind. Consumers will choose healthcare organizations that emphasize their needs and that increasingly gather and rely on their feedback to deliver value.

Healthcare organizations will have a challenging yet opportunity-abundant year in 2025 as they prioritize cybersecurity enhancements and generative AI investments. Find out more in our 2025 healthcare predictions.

Forrester’s new report, Generative AI: What It Means For Health Insurers, dives into genAI’s impact on health insurers and examines avenues for early adoption and ways to circumvent potential risks.

During the next five to 10 years, healthcare will undergo another evolution. Analytics and artificial intelligence will permeate an organization well beyond singular use cases. They will be embedded and scaled into clinical workflows and operations, reshaping care delivery and business outcomes.

Forrester research reveals that 46% of US healthcare organizations are in initial production implementation of generative AI (with departmental-scale use cases), scaling up to enterprise-level deployment. But it will take time, trial and error, training, and talent to make meaningful strides that positively impact the clinical workforce.

Healthcare organizations (HCOs) are navigating turbulent waters as they confront long-standing industry challenges and broad economic currents. Learn how how HCOs can weather the storm and overcome these challenges.

Amid a competitive healthcare landscape and younger generations’ increasing skepticism toward health insurers, health plans must reimagine their engagement approach to foster loyalty, trust, and connection with their members.

As your organization confronts clinician burnout and looks to support your employees’ well-being, consider these top takeaways from ICD Healthcare Network’s Burnout Symposium.

Das Gesundheitswesen wird 2024 sehr dynamisch sein, geprägt von technologischen Innovationen und unkonventionellen Denkweisen zur Erfüllung zahlreicher Gesundheitsbedürfnisse. Erfahren Sie mehr.