This highly respected annual guide to healthcare trends will help you plan for the future. Written by an expert panel, Futurescan 2013 highlights eight key trends affecting the nation’s healthcare organizations. The expert insight in these pages is supported by data from a survey of 625 healthcare leaders across the country.

Loaded with information that will fuel strategic planning, Futurescan 2013 discusses important trends such as

• Payers and providers integrating to align incentives and create efficiencies
• the Effect of value-based payment on utilization
• The fundamental role of nursing in the transformation of the healthcare system
• Integration of palliative care models in the community
• Health information exchanges as a key tool for new care delivery and payment models
• The role of mobile healthcare in transforming the provider--patient relationship
• The adaptability imperative in health system governance
• The future of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program and its Health Care Criteria