Futurescan 2025: Health Care Trends and Implications
Futurescan 2025 is the latest in a series of publications for health care leaders, produced by SHSMD in collaboration with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) since 1999. The report is an invaluable strategic planning resource, empowering hospital and health system leaders to prepare themselves and their organizations for the opportunities and challenges ahead.

In this edition of Futurescan, we hear from eight subject matter experts at the forefront of implementing innovative strategies to advance health care in the U.S. They cover diverse topics such as value-based care financing models, strategic planning imperatives, community collaborations to improve social determinants of health, workforce expectations, sustainability for smaller hospitals, and advances in digital behavioral health and predictive technologies. Despite the broad range of topics, these strategies aim for common goals: reducing health care costs, improving outcomes, and enhancing the patient experience.
- Strategy
featuring Jim Cotelingam, Chief Strategy Officer, Cleveland Clinic
- Small Organization Survival
featuring David Schreiner, PhD, FACHE, President/CEO, Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital
- Behavioral Health
featuring Mike Rhoades, CEO of Alera Health
- Reimbursement Rate-Setting Models
featuring Tori Bayless, CEO of Luminis Health
- Value-Based Care Disruption
featuring Barry Arbuckle, PhD, President/CEO, MemorialCare
- Predictive Technologies
featuring Roberta L. Schwartz, PhD, MHS, FACHE, Executive Vice President, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Chief Innovation Officer, Houston Methodist
- Community Health Care
featuring Len M. Nichols, PhD, Nonresident Fellow, Urban Institute; Professor Emeritus of Health Policy, George Mason University
- Employee Expectations
featuring Hanna Patterson, Senior Vice President of Health Care and Applied Learning, Guild
The expert perspectives in this latest edition of Futurescan on the transformation of health care are supported by data from a survey of hospital and health system leaders from across the country.
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