Healthcare Trends & Forecasts in 2008: Performance Expectations for the Healthcare Industry

Besides its hot-button status in the 2008 presidential election, what other issues will shape the healthcare industry in the coming year? Perennial cost drivers remain, but growing technology dictums, prevalence of quality- and performance-based reimbursement models, evolving physician-hospital and physician-patient dynamics and increased ROI expectations for wellness and health coaching are forcing hospitals, health plans and providers to recast business and care delivery processes. In this fourth annual special report, "Healthcare Trends & Forecasts in 2008: Performance Expectations for the Healthcare Industry," four key thought leaders deliver a sector-by-sector analysis of emerging trends and their impacts and debate the direction of the industry.