ALM's Sule Aygoren moderates the opening session at RealShare Healthcare with keynote speaker Mark Stapp.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ—While the direction of healthcare policy continues to be uncertain, the demand for medical space remains high. During RealShare Healthcare's opening keynote economic outlook, speaker Mark Stapp, Fred E. Taylor Professor of real estate and executive director of the masters of real estate development program at Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business, said that public policy, technology and psychographics are among some of the major drivers in the healthcare sector today.

“Population change and not just demographics but psychographics are going to have a tremendous impact on the type of use and the quality of medical healthcare space,” he said. “Psychographics is an important element in analyzing places in terms of demand, site selection and looks at populations in terms of values, behavior, how people make decisions and more.”

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