Set Your Healthcare Organization Up for Success in 2025

Set Your Healthcare Organization Up for Success in 2025

As we look at 2025, healthcare organizations must recognize that having a successful year is a multi-faceted and cross-team collaborative effort. Marketware understands the unique challenges faced by the healthcare industry, particularly in recruiting, onboarding, and physician relations. Our Physician Strategy Suite is designed to address these challenges, ensuring your organization is set for its most successful year yet.

Challenges Recruitment Teams Face in 2025

1. Unable to Secure Talent on Time

Cause: Current ATS Lacks a Healthcare Focus

Using an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) platform not made specifically for physician-based recruiting increases manual tracking and system configuration, slowing down the recruiting process.

Solution: A Physician-Focused Platform

From healthcare-specific profiles and practice opportunities with custom fields to unique workflow templates that enable teams to identify obsolete tasks and navigate overdue items efficiently — adopting a platform that was built with physician recruiting in mind, will be transformative to the entire recruitment process.

Outcome: Hit Hiring Targets in 2025

Create a seamless workflow process, faster, with our physician-focused provider profiles and practice opportunities to ensure you hit your target hiring efforts for the year.

Recruit People Records

2. Small Pool of Lead Sources

Cause: Improperly Sourced & Tracked Leads

When residents and fellows are not properly sourced and tracked, relationship building suffers, leading to a smaller pool of qualified candidates. Sourcing often requires years of cultivating relationships with potential candidates before they complete their training through residency or fellowship programs.

Solution: Track Physicians & Create Robust Lead Lists

Our platform makes creating lead lists for these students easy. From the profile, identify if the physician is a student, resident, or fellow. Some organizations even create a practice opportunity to track these providers through the last year of their program to see the pipeline of relationship building.

Outcome: A Large Lead Pool of Qualified Candidates

By broadening your lead pool and effectively tracking residents and fellows, recruitment teams can convert these individuals into qualified candidates.

3. Insufficient Recruitment Data for Tracking

Cause: Teams Working Out of Multiple Systems

Hiring teams often struggle to gain a comprehensive understanding of their efforts when using multiple platforms. This provides a challenge when trying to collect data for the AAPPR benchmarking report.

Solution: Fully Integrated Analytics & Recruitment Platform

Consolidating your data into one system makes it easy to identify trends across the hiring process. By utilizing detailed dashboards, recruitment teams can navigate blind spots while gaining valuable insight into hiring trends and organizational needs. Additionally, using physician-specific data from both a candidate’s and an opportunity’s profile, you’re able to share insights with AAPPR.

Outcome: Insight Into Hiring Trends & Needs

With a unified approach to data tracking, recruitment teams can not only improve current processes but also anticipate future hiring needs. This proactive stance will ensure that organizations remain competitive in attracting top talent while fostering a more strategic and insightful recruitment landscape in 2025 and beyond.

Challenges Onboarding Teams Face in 2025

1. Inefficient Onboarding Processes

Cause: Lack of Visibility into the Onboarding Process

Having no visibility into the onboarding processes creates inefficiencies and increases the workload of the onboarding team.

Solution: Collaborative Platform with Data Integration

By moving action items from spreadsheets to a user-friendly platform, teams can effectively work together while gaining valuable insights into the onboarding journey. Pairing this with functional reporting is key to refining and identifying holes in your process. This allows organizations to identify roadblocks that may hinder progress and ensure new hires are prepared for on-time start dates.

Outcome: An Onboarding Efficient Process

Marketware’s reporting has been effective in creating an efficient onboarding process that not only reduces unnecessary workloads for teams but also increases the number of physicians starting on time.

2. Lack of Communication Between Onboarding Team Members

Cause: Teams Working Out of Multiple Systems

When teams work out of multiple systems to onboard a physician, tasks can get missed and accountability can be lacking, proving a disjointed process that decreases teams’ onboarding success.

Solution: A Central Place for Tracking Activities

By centralizing onboarding activities, teams can enhance accountability and communication significantly. Marketware enables you to link dependencies between activities so that tasks do not fall behind. Once an activity is completed, all assignees receive a notification that the action item has been completed, and they can now complete their activity. Further, the comments and activity history feed identifies key edits and loops in teammates at the right time for handoffs.

Outcome: Increased Collaboration & Communication

When onboarding teams work within a single system, they enable effective communication and cross-team collaboration which increases the success of onboarding tasks being completed on time.

3. Providers Falling off Track within the Onboarding Process

Cause: High Percentage of Overdue Activities

Providers with a higher percentage of overdue activities run a higher chance of becoming at risk of missing their start date and jeopardizing the overall integration experience.

Solution: Easy-to-Use Project Status Boards

Marketware’s status boards show providers in process and identify them as on-track, off-track, at-risk, and completed. Statuses are based on the percentage of overdue activities relative to their start date, allowing teams to identify who needs attention. This clear visibility enables onboarding teams to identify who requires immediate attention and support.

Outcome: Increase in Providers Hitting Start Dates

Onboarding teams can stay on top of activities, manage overdue items, and see an increase in providers staying on track to hitting their start date.

Use Onboarding Projects to Customize & Streamline Your Process

Challenges Liaisons & Physician Relations Teams Face in 2025

1. Proving Physician Liaison ROI

Cause: Inability to Track & Provide Reports to Leadership

A substantial amount of effort goes into establishing connections with providers to retain referrals. However, without the ability to track and provide reports to leadership regarding relationship-building activities proving the impact of a liaison’s work becomes increasingly difficult.

Solution: Solution with Activity & Issue Reporting

Use a PRM to document interactions and issue resolutions, creating a comprehensive record that highlights relationship development over time. In addition to reporting on individual provider interactions, liaisons can also document collaborative efforts with team members, engagement outcomes, and issues related to specific activities.

Outcome: Proven ROI of Physician Liaison Efforts

By creating a documented track record of relationship-building activities, liaisons can demonstrate their contributions to keeping providers satisfied and engaged.

Activity Overview Dashboard

2. Missed Growth Opportunities & Retention Issues

Cause: No Way to Plan & Track Initiatives

Retention efforts are not always ad-hoc emails or provider visits. Sometimes a larger project-based effort is needed to work with a struggling provider to increase referral paths. Not having a succinct way to track efforts can make initiatives harder to accomplish, which impacts the growth opportunities between liaisons and providers and their practices.

Solution: Healthcare-Centered Initiative Planning

Our healthcare-centered initiative planning allows easy tracking of to-dos and communications. Whether this is a pre-planned effort or an ongoing ad-hoc program, our initiative feature has you covered. Initiatives seamlessly track activities per member, whether these are providers or facilities, and allow you to report on the success of this initiative.

Outcome: Referral Growth & Retention from Happy Providers

By utilizing structured initiative planning, organizations can enhance referral growth and retention from satisfied providers. When aligning physicians with new practices or expanding referral programs, robust initiatives ensure strategic retention efforts rather than reactive ones, resulting in happier providers.

3. Defining Liaison Service Areas

Cause: Inability to Identify Liaison Ownership over Service Areas

Liaison ownership efforts often extend beyond their physical location and can span several different areas across multiple zip codes. When a health system spans cities, even states, it can be challenging to identify who covers what areas, causing reporting to suffer and teams left unable to efficiently identify practices that fall under their purview.

Solution: Service Area Designation Tool

Marketware’s service area assignment allows administrators to easily break down service areas by zip code. Service areas can be reported on easily from our in-app list grids or used as a filter on claims data to identify growth patterns in service areas.

Outcome: Visualize Service Area Breakdown

Teams can visualize the breakdown of covered areas more effectively. This not only simplifies planning visits but also enhances reporting on area-based claims and clarifies liaison assignments.

Challenges Healthcare Analysts & Business Development Teams Face in 2025

1. Aligning Analytics with Business Objectives

Cause: Unable to Translate Data

Often Analytics teams struggle to translate complex data insights into actionable strategies aligned with business growth goals. These misaligned efforts can lead to wasted resources and missed opportunities for market expansion or service optimization.

Solution: Leverage Claims Data Insights

Use Marketware’s claims data insights to generate actionable insights for strategic planning, provider alignment, and acquisition strategies. Analyze referral patterns to identify high-value providers and gaps in the referral network. Evaluate market share trends to target areas with growth opportunities or underserved populations.

Outcome: Collaborative Environment

By using Marketware’s Analytics platform, organizations can foster collaboration between business development leaders and analytics teams to ensure data insights directly inform strategic decisions.

Provider-Integrity-Analysis 2

2. Market Competition & Differentiation

Cause: Limited Access to Comprehensive Market Data

With increasing competition, healthcare organizations struggle to differentiate their offerings and stay ahead of industry disruptors such as telehealth and retail healthcare. Teams face mounting pressure to identify and capture niche markets quickly, often with limited data.

Solution: Implement an Analytics & Market Intelligence Solution

Invest in analytics and market intelligence tools to anticipate trends and stay on top of patient demands. Identify competitors’ volumes, service lines, and referral sources to benchmark performance. Highlight trends in emerging service demands such as telehealth and outpatient surgery.

Outcome: Data-Driven Decision Making

By enabling competitive intelligence through claims analysis and offering detailed reports on service line performance and regional trends, organizations can recommend opportunities for market differentiation based on data insights.

3. Data Access & Gaps

Cause: Data Sources Lack Integration

Accessing and integrating diverse datasets remains a challenge. Gaps in data can hinder competitive analysis, patient acquisition strategies, and partnership evaluations.

Solution: Multiple Data Source Integration

Marketware seamlessly integrates external claims data, internal EHR data, as well as field data into its platform to make cross-source analysis user-friendly and easy to access.

Outcome: 360 View of Your Market

Marketware’s analytics platform can streamline access and data sharing to view trends in field data, internal EHR data, and external claims data to create a more holistic view of current and emerging market trends.

See Significant Results by the End of 2025

From finding the right candidate through recruitment to successful onboarding and maintaining lasting relationships with physicians, Marketware provides comprehensive platforms that support each phase of this critical process. By implementing our Physician Strategy Suite now, your organization can begin seeing significant results by the end of 2025 — setting you on a path toward sustained success.

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Date: January 08 2025
Subject: Physician Strategy Suite
About the author
Kayla Morris — Product Manager
Kayla Thompson

Senior Product Manager
Marketware