Strategic Planning

When healthcare leaders do not clearly set direction, define performance expectations, create a patient focus and demonstrate clear and visible practice values and ethics, physicians and other employees are likely to invent their own ideas as to what needs to be done and how to accomplish it.

But new area of business intelligence does not come without challenges.

Deal brings together the community-based focus of WellStar with Emory's prestige in academic medicine.

Last year was another big one for hospital mergers and acquisitions, a new report suggests, as healthcare providers continue to see consolidation as a key financial strategy for surviving industry reforms.

Healthcare leaders expected to discuss new coding in Washington this week.

Company will use cash from its initial public offering to pay off debts and regain its footing as a for-profit company.

The list of tools insurers use to spread risk tends to get longer every day. Sometimes there's an opportunity for the list to grow wider, and not longer, by finding new value in the tools and resources already being used.

Health system leveraged the processes for controlling finances, listening to staff and investing in new technologies to help it better support patients' needs and bring in more revenue.

Lower revenue makes tracking costs even more important for these smaller healthcare facilities.

HHS has, for the first time in the history of the Medicare program, set a goal of pushing a significantly larger share of Medicare payments through alternative payment models such as accountable care organizations (ACOs) and bundled payments.