Develop market-leading strategy

Use our proven guidance to ensure your organization is taking the right strategic direction.

Accelerate performance improvement

Personalized access to right answer, including how-to guidance for translating that strategy into action for all stakeholders.

Enhance team effectiveness

Ready-made resources and on-call experts to enable leaders to do more with less.

How it works

We share our research in many ways. Whether you prefer reading, listening, or discussing live, you get a steady stream of updates and insights from our team, as well as opportunities to connect with members addressing the same issues. These include:

We tailor our partnerships to each organization's goals, market, and culture, combining best practice research with the analytical power of our technologies and the hands-on support of our experts to address your most complex challenges.

Find your fit

Our research programs are role-specific to provide the exact insights and resources that will make your job easier. We offer research for:

• Hospitals, health systems and medical groups
• Industry service providers and suppliers
• International hospitals, health systems, and commissioning and regulatory bodies

Health system, hospital, and medical group executives

• Cardiovascular Service Line

  The Cardiovascular Roundtable is CV administrators’ partner for high-value CV care. Areas of focus include setting leadership structures; maximizing physician relationships; building the CV network; addressing readmissions penalties; and managing chronic, comorbid patients.

• Care Transformation and Population Health Management

  The Population Health Advisor program helps executives prioritize care transformation investments, set realistic strategies, and create detailed action plans for specific population health initiatives.

• C-suite

  As the Advisory Board’s flagship research program, the Health Care Advisory Board provides CEOs and their executive teams with the strategic guidance, tools, and implementation support needed to win market share, protect margins, and drive population health ROI.

• Development

  The Philanthropy Leadership Council helps development teams maximize existing donor relationships, cultivate new ones, and demonstrate their impact to executives and prospects.

• Employed Medical Group

  The Medical Group Strategy Council helps executives build the medical group of choice in their market by meeting consumer demands and improving physician engagement leadership, communication, cohesion, and transparency at all levels.

• Hospital Physician Leadership & Medical Affairs

  The Physician Executive Council is a strategic partner for chief medical officers, helping physician executives and their teams achieve high-quality, low-cost care.

• Human Resources

  The HR Advancement Center provides strategic workforce guidance for HR executives, tactical implementation support for HR staff and operational leaders, and health care-specific benchmarks to inform HR strategic planning.

• Imaging Service Line

  The Imaging Performance Partnership equips imaging leaders to address critical issues including price scrutiny, risk-based payment, integration across care sites, access, and quality improvement.

• Independent Medical Group

  The Physician Practice Roundtable strengthens independent physician organizations—ranging from primary care to multispecialty to specialist-only medical groups and IPAs—by helping them set strategy, apply best practices, and engage physicians in new care delivery models.

• Information Technology

  Health Care IT Advisor serves as IT leaders’ trusted source for reliable market insight, expert guidance, and staff training. We bring business value to your IT enterprise by helping you set strategy, optimize IT investments, and educate your staff and non-IT colleagues.

• Managers and Team Leaders

  The Manager Toolbox gives instant access to step-by-step guidance for the tough situations managers face every day, based on health care best practice. It puts tested management best-practices at users' fingertips and helps them quickly build personalized cheat sheets for their specific challenges.

• Nursing

  The Nursing Executive Center supports nurse leaders in shaping strategy, transforming the clinical workforce, and improving outcomes—all while facing greater margin pressure, rising care complexity, and a growing list of nursing-sensitive measures tied to reimbursement.

• Oncology Service Line

  The Oncology Roundtable helps leaders transform cancer program performance with research on everything from program growth, staffing, costly accreditation requirements, and palliative care to physician alignment, patient financial navigation, and more.

• Pharmacy Service Line

  The Pharmacy Executive Forum partners with pharmacy leaders to address their most pressing concerns and achieve their business and clinical goals.

• Post-Acute Care

  The Post-Acute Care Collaborative helps PAC providers navigate delivery system and payment reform challenges while strengthening their referrer relationships and care quality.

• Quality Reporting

  The Quality Reporting Roundtable provides ongoing strategic support and operational insights for all stakeholders involved in CMS quality reporting programs. Our experts provide continuous support on programs including MIPS, APM, Meaningful Use, PQRS, VPBM, and IQR.

• Revenue Cycle

  The Revenue Cycle Advancement Center helps hospital and health system finance executives navigate everything from tightening margins and patient price sensitivity to the continued growth in new payment models.

• Service Line Strategy and Business Development

  The Service Line Strategy Advisor team works with planners and hospital executives to uncover viable growth opportunities, prioritize clinical investments, and position services effectively through highly customized, consultative projects.

• Strategy and Business Development

  The Market Innovation Center helps executives set their growth strategy by providing a forecasting platform to model future scenarios, evaluating new services and competitors, and offering organizational-effectiveness and stakeholder-influence tools.