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An evening in Atlanta: Join us for a networking dinner!

Hosted by LeanTaaS

Join healthcare leaders for an invitation-only dinner at White Oak Kitchen and Cocktails on Saturday evening, May 3 at 7:00 PM ET.

This evening in Atlanta includes, hors d’oeuvres, wine, and a seated dinner. Join us for the opportunity to network with your peers and continue the conversation from exciting sessions at AAOE!

Please complete the registration form to confirm your attendance. You will receive a confirmation email upon form completion and a reminder email prior to the event.

DATE
TIME
LOCATION
Saturday,
May 3
7:00 PM ET
270 Peachtree St NW,
Atlanta, GA 30303
AAOE 2025 Dinner White Oak

This evening in Scottsdale includes, hors d'oeuvres, wine, and a seated dinner.

Join us for the opportunity to speak with your health system peers and network with other executives.

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Chapter 1: The Looming Challenge

If you work in the healthcare industry, or even if you’re just an interested observer, you don’t need a book to tell you that the financial pressure is on as never before. A perfect storm of circumstances is swirling together, one that will make survivability, not to mention profitability, a greater challenge for healthcare companies than we’ve seen in the modern era.

As with banks, retailers, and airlines, which had to rapidly enhance their brick-and-mortar footprints with robust online business models—it is the early movers eager to gain new efficiencies that will thrive and gain market share. The slow-to-move and the inefficient will end up being consolidated into larger health systems seeking to expand their geographical footprints.

The pressures on healthcare

Let’s look at just a few of the looming challenges healthcare must meet head-on.

An aging population

By the year 2030, the number of adults sixty-five years of age or older will exceed the number of children eighteen years or younger in the United States. We are living longer than our parents did. Positive news for sure, but problematic for several reasons.

The older we get, the more medical help we need. Older people have more chronic diseases. By 2025, nearly 50 percent of the population will suffer from one or more chronic diseases that will require ongoing medical intervention. This combination of an aging population and an increase in chronic diseases will create a ballooning demand for healthcare services.

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