At Becker’s 2025, healthcare leaders made it clear: resilient infrastructure is key to delivering future-ready care. With rising costs and limited capital, hospitals are turning to flexible models like Energy-as-a-Service. Optimum Energy helps health systems modernize, optimize, and align infrastructure with clinical priorities—without the upfront burden.

“The hospital of the future won’t be defined by walls or wings, but by its ability to adapt, connect, and deliver care wherever it’s needed most.” —Thomas Goetz, healthcare futurist and author

That vision was reflected throughout the 2025 Becker’s Healthcare Conference, where leaders came together to explore the evolving dynamics of care delivery. With rising capital constraints, aging infrastructure, the growth of virtual care, and increasing demands on performance, hospitals must now evolve at the pace of clinical innovation.

Optimum Energy attended alongside C-suite leaders, including CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and other facility executives, to engage in strategic discussions about what’s next for the industry. Across nearly every session, one message emerged consistently: healthcare is facing fundamental shifts. As costs rise, staffing challenges persist, and technology accelerates, health systems are reimagining the care experience and the foundational infrastructure supporting it.

Here are key themes we heard in our conversations and sessions at Becker’s 2025:

1. The Future Belongs to the Agile: Health system executives emphasized that resilience and adaptability clinically, operationally, and financially will determine success. Organizations that align patient care with operational efficiency and long-term sustainability are best positioned to lead.
2. AI Will Reshape Care If Infrastructure Keeps Up: While leaders are excited about AI’s potential for predictive analytics, automation, and clinical decision support, they recognize that meaningful implementation depends on scalable, resilient infrastructure. Without this foundation, AI remains an unrealized promise.
3. Fiscal Pressures Are Forcing Innovation in Capital Strategy: Finance leaders spoke candidly about the realities of shrinking margins and limited capital. Many are turning to alternative funding models, strategic partners, and performance-based operations to protect liquidity and modernize aging systems.
4. Infrastructure Is Strategic, Not Supportive: As the care model evolves, so does the role of infrastructure. It is no longer just about facility maintenance. It is about enabling access, powering technology, and supporting the workforce. Healthcare organizations must reconsider infrastructure as a strategic asset that drives growth and agility.

The Optimum Energy Perspective

Throughout Becker’s 2025, our team met directly with healthcare leaders across finance, operations, and technology. One insight stood out: infrastructure now plays a central role in care delivery, workforce performance, and long-term financial strategy.
Hospitals are not simply seeking system replacements. They are looking for partners who can help reimagine how infrastructure supports their mission.

Today’s leaders are asking:

• How do we maintain reliability across multi-site campuses?
• How can we upgrade critical systems without depleting our capital budget?
• What do supporting advanced technologies like centralized monitoring or digital diagnostics take?

These are the challenges Optimum Energy is built to solve.

A Turnkey, Results-Driven Model, Optimum Energy offers more than efficiency. We deliver comprehensive infrastructure solutions tailored to healthcare environments. Through our Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) model, we help health systems:

• Access off-balance-sheet financing to preserve capital for clinical priorities.
• Guarantee system performance and uptime to support uninterrupted care.
• Continuously optimize with intelligent software and data insights.
• Transfer operational and renewal risk to reduce internal burden.
• Align infrastructure planning with clinical, operational, and financial objectives.

Whether enhancing an existing facility or supporting new development, our focus remains on long-term outcomes.

The Future Is Already Underway

From shifting reimbursement models to rising energy costs, health systems face real constraints. At the same time, deferred maintenance adds risk, and reliability has become non-negotiable. Leading organizations are not waiting for perfect conditions. They are adopting flexible models, like EaaS, to increase agility and strengthen their position. Their infrastructure is becoming more resilient, more responsive, and better prepared for the Future of care.

Optimum Energy is proud to support this progress. We help hospitals operate more effectively, invest more strategically, and focus resources where they matter most: on patients. Learn More