The HCEG Top 10 list of challenges, issues, and opportunities facing healthcare leaders have been a focus of the HealthCare Executive Group for over a decade. Planned for development by participants at our 2020 Annual Forum, the 2021 HCEG Top 10 list of challenges, issues, and opportunities facing healthcare executives guides our content and programming throughout the coming year. It also serves as the basis for the Industry Pulse research that HCEG and our sponsor partner Change Healthcare have provided over the last decade.
Given the sea change forced by the coronavirus pandemic, the upcoming presidential elections, not hosting our in-person Annual Forum this year, and feedback received about providing more detailed information – a new approach will be used to develop the HCEG Top 10 list for 2021. Four main objectives guide the development of the 2021 HCEG Top 10 list:
Address Impacts from Coronavirus Pandemic & Upcoming Elections
The COVID-19 crisis has clearly altered healthcare priorities and the outcome of the November elections will most certainly do the same. It’s important for the 2021 HCEG Top 10 list to reflect these changed priorities and likely impact from election results.
Deeper Dive into Topics of Interest to Healthcare Executives
In an effort to provide more detailed input and insight into the challenges, issues, and opportunities facing all healthcare stakeholders, candidates for the 2021 HCEG Top 10 list include over 40 ‘sub-topics’ grouped into thirteen ‘themes.” These additional details are expected to provide more value based on the type of healthcare stakeholder: health plan/payer, provider, and risk-bearing provider.
All Virtual Identification, Selection & Ranking Process
Given the absence of our in-person 2020 Annual Forum that was scheduled for this month – and keeping with HCEG’s goal of providing more granular information – the process for identifying, selecting, and ranking core items on the HCEG Top 10 will take place virtually this year.
Open to All Healthcare Industry Participants
Historically, HCEG’s Top 10 process has been limited to HCEG members and attendees of our Annual Forum. Since HCEG is not hosting a physical annual forum this year, and in an effort to collect a wider perspective from a greater number of healthcare industry participants, we’re opening the 2021 HCEG Top 10 process to everyone who cares to participate.
Overview of 2021 HCEG Top 10 Development Process
The following is the high-level process for developing the new HCEG Top 10 list:
- Identify “Initial List of 2021 HCEG Top 10 Themes & Sub-Topics” (COMPLETED)
- Solicit Feedback on Initial List from Industry at Large (9/16/20 through 11/4/20)
- Collect rankings of the Top 10 Sub-Topics identified in Step #2 (11/15/20 through 11/30/20)
- Announce 2021 HCEG Top 10 List (12/14/20)
Help Select Candidates for the 2021 HCEG Top 10
The following are the major thematic categories proposed for the 2021 HCEG Top 10. A list of the sub-topics associated with each theme can be found here. 
Take Step 1 of the 2-Step 2021 HCEG Top 10 development process today. This survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete. If you are unable to complete the entire survey, we urge you to complete as many of the sections as possible that you consider important.
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