Advisory Board's Annual Health Care CEO Survey investigated the top concerns of 183 C-suite executives across the nation. Advisory Board conducted the survey in December 2016 and January 2017.
Here are the top five areas of concern, among 26 surveyed topics:
1. Improving ambulatory access — 57 percent
2. Innovative approaches to expense reduction — 57 percent
3. Boosting outpatient procedural market share — 55 percent
4. Minimizing unwarranted clinical variation — 54 percent
5. Controlling avoidable utilization — 49 percent
In the survey last year, hospital executives were most concerned with "minimizing unwanted variation in care cost and quality."