What’s shaping your strategies in 2025?
While tackling your biggest business challenges remains key, Advisory Board and Optum Life Sciences experts break down the 3 healthcare trends to inform your planning throughout the year and beyond.
Our latest e-book provides an in-depth look into these trends and the implications for the life sciences industry. Read more about: the promise and limitations of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and machine learning (ML), areas where the life sciences industry can lead to make progress in improving health outcomes, and why it’s time to prioritize elevating the patient voice.

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Plan with Confidence to Surveil Infectious Diseases
With the Optum® Infectious Disease Platform, you can target the right audience at the right time with the right message using precise data.
Strengthen Your Value Story with HEOR
Tap into our expertise in health economics and outcomes research.
Clinicogenomics for Greater Data Insights
Better understand diseases and drug development opportunities.
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