Operations

Positive price to earnings ratios and net debt to EBITDA mean healthcare firms have confidence and capacity to fund future acquisitions.

In an effort to offset some of the expected impact of the Affordable Care Act, the executives at Mountain States Health Alliance knew they had to make a bold move. They chose to implement lean.

Despite the relatively weaker contribution of health employment growth to the current recovery, the health sector share of total employment is equal to 10.71 percent as of July 2013, barely below its all-time high rate.

Hospital IT budgets may be absorbed by EHRs but administrators are making other IT-related investments.

Medians for U.S. not-for-profit healthcare systems remained steady in 2012, but analysts expect a weakening in ratios due to the pressures of healthcare reform.

The delay of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate gives businesses and health plans an opportunity to better prepare, not to put off what they know they must do.

War zone military care tactics inform Lincoln Health System ACO design.

An army is amassing – composed of payers, providers, healthcare organizations, businesses, community and consumer groups – to help educate and guide a large part of the population to sign up for coverage on the health insurance exchanges.

The associate degree is emerging as a prime ticket into the healthcare workforce. Of the 20 fastest growing healthcare occupations that require a college education, 10 are at the associate level, according to data supplied by Economic Modeling Specialists International.

Instead of "going to war" to resolve contentious disputes, healthcare companies should employ preemptive dispute resolution procedures in contracts.