Explore how patient age influences care site preferences, with CDC data showing urgent care and retail clinic use varies across pediatric, adult and senior populations.

The latest Sg2 outpatient ED forecast shows behavioral health ED visits will grow faster than overall ED visits over the next decade.

Discover how Americans’ digital health preferences are evolving, including trends in telehealth, virtual care, healthcare consumer engagement, digital healthcare tools, and patient expectations shaping the future of healthcare delivery and health system strategy.

Explore how declining flu vaccination rates in post-acute care settings are impacting patient outcomes, workforce stability, and healthcare operations in this Kaufman Hall infographic.

See how rising healthcare expenses are impacting American households, financial stability, and access to care in this infographic from Kaufman Hall highlighting today’s healthcare affordability crisis.

Kaufman Hall’s latest National Hospital Flash Report underscores persistent cost pressures that continue to strain hospital and health system finances.

Hospital and health system M&A activity continued with momentum in the first quarter of 2026, with 22 hospital and health system transactions announced—the highest first-quarter activity since 2020, according to the Kaufman Hall Mergers and Acquisitions Q1 Report.

Explore how rising ACA Marketplace premiums—driven by higher healthcare costs and expiring subsidies—are reducing affordability and leading to declining coverage rates nationwide.

Explore Kaufman Hall’s infographic on declining tobacco use, highlighting recent trends, key data points, and what falling single-digit usage means for public health and healthcare systems.

Explore Kaufman Hall’s infographic on physicians’ evolving views of AI, highlighting growing optimism, increased adoption, and remaining concerns about implementation and trust in healthcare.

Healthcare bankruptcies declined again in 2025, but ongoing financial pressures, policy uncertainty, and rising costs continue to challenge providers, signaling that underlying market stress remains.

The latest Vizient Research Institute study, The access imperative: Reimagining care delivery for a more complex patient population, concludes that the bulk of hospitalizations in the United States are due to chronic illness.