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About Advisory Board

The Advisory Board is a best practices firm that uses a combination of research, technology, and consulting to improve the performance of health care organizations. Its focus is on identifying emerging forces shaping the health care industry and on leveraging clinical data and industry knowledge to implement best practices at the operational, clinical and administrative levels. Research is focused to members or councils in three categories:

• Health, hospital and medical group executive teams
• Service Line Leaders
• Industry Service Providers & Suppliers

The memberships available to all IU Health employees is listed below. You are encouraged to take advantage of these robust online forecasting tools, Innovations Summits, and the easy-to-search online database.

Clinical Advisory Research Boards

• Cardiovascular Round-table - The Cardiovascular Round-table is CV administrators’ partner for high-value CV care. Areas of focus include setting leadership structures; maximizing physician relationships; building the CV network; addressing re-admissions penalties; and managing chronic, co-morbid patients.

• Financial Leadership Council - The Financial Leadership Council helps hospital and health system finance executives navigate everything from tightening margins and patient price sensitivity to the continued growth in new payment models.

• Health Care Advisory Board - 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.

• Health Care IT Advisor - 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. Health Plan Advisory Council -

• HR Advancement Center- 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 Performance Partnership - 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.

• Market Innovation - 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.

• Medical Group Strategy Council- 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.

• Nursing Executive Center - 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 Roundtable- 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.

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

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

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

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

• Post-Acute Care Collaborative - 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 Round-table - The Quality Reporting Round-table 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.

• Service Line Strategy Advisor - 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.