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2025 Horizons Life Sciences and Health Care
The hospital as a global institution
Hospitals continue to expand their global footprint.
Demand for high-quality health care combined with
innovative technology have generated worldwide
opportunities for health care providers. This trend
shows little signs of slowing in 2025, as hospitals race
to establish collaborations that boost their global
footprint and revenue.
Global advisory and consulting projects: Governments and
companies continue to make deep investments in health systems
infrastructure, especially in the Middle East. Respected hospitals
are tapped to advise and consult internationally on best practices
in clinical operation, care models, and quality initiatives, and to
help guide establishment of new health care institutions.
Global telemedicine: Remote second opinions, virtual services,
and hospital-to-hospital telemedicine collaborations continue to
flourish across borders, even five years after the pandemic
accelerated virtual caregiving.
Global patient services: Revenue is mounting from international
patients, particularly from individuals who seek to travel for
specialist “western” clinical services. Hospitals increasingly
engage cross-border employees, independent contractors, and
marketing firms to socialize their in-patient specialties and liaise
with current and prospective patients.
Global data initiatives: Multi-country transactions are
underway to consolidate and monetize rich repositories of patient
data. As global data privacy regimes proliferate, data-oriented
transactions are complex, but they hold great promise for the
future of digital health.
Global research: Global medical research and clinical
trials are imperative in the modern health care ecosystem.
Tracking regulatory regimes across clinical research, insurance,
pharmaceuticals, devices, and more is a full time affair.
Research security and inappropriate “foreign influence”
also will receive mounting attention under the new U.S.
presidential administration.
Global clinical services: Physicians are daily traveling abroad
for stints as “visiting physicians” at foreign institutions or to
backfill staffing at foreign locations. These programs often stem
from revenue-generating cooperations between hospitals and
foreign governments.
Global education and training programs: Observerships,
capacity building, and workshops for health care professionals are
being conducted at home and abroad to foster teambuilding and
to elevate patient care.
As hospital budgets continue to come under pressure, the zeal for
international activity remains strong. Hospitals operating across
borders should be mindful of complex legal challenges of
international projects. Navigating the laws and regulations of
multiple jurisdictions – including employment, tax, research,
privacy, IP, and contracts regimes – is imperative as hospitals
evolve into truly global enterprises.
William F. Ferreira
Partner
Washington, D.C.
Lauren Colantonio
Associate
Washington, D.C.
