Highlights from the Modern Healthcare Leadership Summit

UBS summarizes its top 10 takeaways from the Modern Healthcare Leadership Summit: affordability will remain a dominant political and regulatory theme through the midterm election cycle and into 2027, with price transparency, greater competition and targeted pharmaceutical reforms seen as the most immediate levers; AI is producing tangible workflow benefits across diagnostics, coding and administrative tasks—e.g., reducing certain language and screen adaptation work from 30K to 1K hours and an automated post-discharge outreach program associated with an 11% reduction in readmissions—but compute costs are material and not every AI enhancement warrants higher reimbursement; ambulatory and home-based care are becoming core health-system strategy, with over 50% of revenue at many systems already coming from non-acute services;