Healthcare Leadership Trends for 2025
Roles growing in importance Figure 12 captures the leadership roles respondents identified as growing most in importance during the coming year. Several important takeaways are worth noting.
ROLES CURRENTLY GROWING IN IMPORTANCE
CLINICAL LEADERSHIP
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
CYBERSECURITY
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
PATIENT EXPERIENCE
OPERATIONS
QUALITY / SAFETY
POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT VALUE - BASED CARE
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
INNOVATON
FINANCE
TELEHEALTH
PATIENT ACCESS
WELLNESS
0% 5%
10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%
Figure 12
Clinical Leadership topped the charts for the third straight year. This category peaked at 62% in 2022 as pandemic management remained a major need. Today’s clinical leaders are central to everything from technology adoption to financial health to safety, and they need increasingly broad skill sets. The second through fourth roles on the list were occupied last year by Patient Experience, Value Based Care, and Population Health. Each of these fell five percentage points in 2024 to finish further down the list, though still attracting a solid 27-30% response.
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