We have rounded up some reports and surveys from around the industry that we thought were of interest.
The $40 Billion Impact of Orthopedic Patient Leakage to Community Physical Therapy Clinics
Discover how orthopedic referral leakage is costing hospitals billions—and what to do about it. Luna Physical Therapy’s whitepaper reveals the $40B revenue impact hospitals face when patients leak to community physical therapy providers and outlines a proven solution to stop it.
Generative AI: Balancing Today’s Needs and Tomorrow’s Vision
The new 2025 Future Ready Healthcare Survey Report from Wolters Kluwer Health, conducted in partnership with the independent marketing research firm Ipsos, reveals that while healthcare professionals widely recognize the transformative potential of GenAI, most organizations are not yet ready to harness its full value.
10th Annual Future Health Index Report: Building Trust in Healthcare AI
Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, has released its 10th annual Future Health Index (FHI) report, highlighting the growing strain on global healthcare systems. The FHI 2025 Report, the largest global survey of its kind analyzing key concerns of healthcare professionals and patients, indicates AI holds promise for transforming care delivery. However, gaps in trust threaten to stall progress at a time when innovation is most needed.
How AI is reshaping life sciences consumer engagement
Cognizant’s AI Inclination Index reveals which consumers are most open to using AI in the life sciences purchase journey—as well as where and how they’ll use it. Knowing this, life sciences organizations can develop a highly nuanced and effective consumer-facing AI strategy.
Closing the AI Governance Gap: Building a Strong Foundation for Success
A new survey reveals a striking disconnect between healthcare leaders’ confidence in their AI readiness and their actual ability to scale and sustain AI across the enterprise. While 70% of respondents express confidence in their AI governance, only 15% report having scalable infrastructure in place. And more than half admit their systems still need significant improvement. The survey, sponsored by Nordic Consulting, highlights a hard truth: this gap could result in premature investments, inefficiencies, and underwhelming outcomes.
Inside Incredible Health’s 2025 6th Annual State of U.S. Nurses & Technicians Report: Pressure, Progress, and a Path Forward
Incredible Health, the largest software and AI-powered career marketplace for permanent healthcare workers, announced the release of its sixth annual State of U.S. Nursing & Technicians Report. The report highlights emerging challenges and opportunities across staffing, compensation, well-being, and AI technology across the US healthcare workforce. This year’s report features a major expansion: for the first time ever, the report includes insights from more than 1 million US nurses, as well as technicians. The insights offer healthcare organizations a data-driven roadmap from responses across the country to meet rising care demands, improve retention, and support their permanent workforces.
Shuttered Clinics, Preventable Deaths: The Impact of U.S. Global Health Funding Cuts in Ethiopia
An abrupt freeze on United States foreign aid is catalyzing a preventable health catastrophe in Ethiopia. The Physicians for Human Rights brief, “Shuttered Clinics, Preventable Deaths: The Impact of U.S. Global Health Funding Cuts in Ethiopia,” documents how the sudden cessation of U.S. funding is decimating a health system already strained by conflict – disrupting the supply of essential HIV commodities, limiting access to maternal health services, and placing critical nutrition interventions at risk. PHR calls on the Trump administration to reverse global health aid cuts and on other governments to help provide sustainable funding to address the health crisis in Ethiopia.
Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System
In its report to Congress, Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommends a major overhaul to how Medicare updates physician payments. In calling for a long-term, inflation-adjusted approach that better reflects the cost of providing care, MedPAC’s recommendation better supports practice viability and matches an approach supported by the American Medical Association (AMA).
2025 Healthcare Consumer Report
HealthEdge® released its fifth annual Healthcare Consumer Report, unveiling key insights into consumer sentiment about their health insurance plans. This year’s findings highlight the growing importance of affordability, transparency, member engagement, and the role of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) in shaping consumer expectations.
2025 Global Health Care Outlook
The Deloitte US Center for Health Solutions surveyed 121 C-suite executives from health care organizations across Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States in August and September 2024. These regions represent significant portions of the global economy and provide valuable perspectives on current trends in the industry. Health care organizations in Africa, Asia, Eastern and Southern Europe, and South America were not surveyed. While the survey results primarily reflect the perspectives of developed health care markets, anecdotal evidence suggests that developing markets may share similar priorities, though this is not quantitatively confirmed.
The MAHA Report
This report—Make Our Children Healthy Again: Assessment—is a call to action. It presents the stark reality of American children’s declining health, backed by compelling data and long-term trends. More importantly, it seeks to unpack the potential dietary, behavioral, medical, and environmental drivers behind this crisis. By examining the root causes of deteriorating child health, this assessment establishes a clear, evidence based foundation for the policy interventions, institutional reforms, and societal shifts needed to reverse course.
2025 Report: Building power for health and equity
People working together have the power to create a society where everyone has what they need to thrive. The new University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute (UWPHI) Model of Health expands on two decades of work by naming how power is applied and reinforced through society’s rules to shape our communities and our health. The model broadens our understanding of how well and how long we live by examining who and what influence community conditions and our daily lives.
Accenture Technology Vision 2025 and Healthcare
The healthcare sector is entering the next chapter of profound transformation, driven by the rapid evolution of AI technology and its potential to reinvent access, experience and outcomes. At the center of this transformation is the proliferation of accessible and ever-present AI as described in Accenture’s recently published Technology Vision 2025.
2025 Homecare Insights: Provider Voices Survey
HHAeXchange, a provider of homecare management solutions for providers, managed care organizations (MCOs), and state Medicaid programs, announced the results of its 2025 Homecare Insights: Provider Voices survey. The survey, which gathered insights from 145 home- and community-based services (HCBS) agency owners and operators across HHAeXchange’s customer base, highlights the current priorities, pain points, and opportunities facing the HCBS industry.