Healthcare leaders are navigating one of the most dynamic and disruptive periods in recent memory. As we accelerate toward 2026, longstanding assumptions about who controls care delivery, how patients access services, and what drives clinical decision-making are rapidly shifting.

Join Advisory Board and Health Catalyst for a high-impact session that breaks down the most important industry forces shaping the year ahead—and what executives must do now to stay ahead of the curve.

Advisory Board will present key findings from its State of the Industry research, including:

  • Safety Net Access Under Strain: A rapid shift toward a “utilitarian patchwork” of community access driven by shrinking coverage, rising uncompensated care, and rural provider vulnerability.
  • The Limits of Generic Scale: Payers increasingly delegating to niche experts amid GLP-1 cost pressures, behavioral health complexity, and growing scrutiny of utilization management.
  • The Rise of New Clinical Power Brokers: How AI vendors, DTC brands, social platforms, and nontraditional practice owners are influencing treatment decisions and patient expectations.

Kevin Freeman, Chief Commercial Officer at Health Catalyst, will connect these trends to real-world client outcomes—showing how leading health systems are using data, analytics, scalability, and operational transformation to address these emerging challenges.

*Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) are not provided for this webinar.


Featured Speaker

KD Weitzel

Research Director and Expert Partner, Advisory Board

KD is an Expert Partner and member facilitator at Advisory Board, specializing in macroeconomic impacts in the Healthcare industry. KD helps organizations develop strategic direction based on Advisory Board research and guidance. Prior to joining Advisory Board, KD served in executive advisory roles at AWS, Forrester, and Slalom. For 13 years he served as a principal executive advisor and facilitator for CEB, now Gartner. KD also had a multi-decade international career in IT consulting.

Featured Speaker

Kevin Freeman

Chief Commercial Officer, Health Catalyst

Kevin Freeman came to Health Catalyst in 2020 as part of the Vitalware acquisition, bringing 20+ years of healthcare IT growth leadership experience including publicly traded, private equity, and venture-capital-backed companies. He has a successful track record of building results-driven teams, strengthening client partnerships and driving business development growth. Freeman has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Texas at Arlington.

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