Strategic Planning

John Mackey also suggests weight loss and nutrition camps for employees and customers, marketed as a weekend retreats.

New evidence suggests physicians will see a positive financial change from the conversion and that individual patients will benefit.

Executives say discussion have been going on for more than a year.

The way hospitals create their annual budgets could be changing amid reforms, as some are beginning to see the benefits of leaning on business intelligence during the process.

A flurry of mergers and acquisitions among U.S. hospitals and health systems last year is prompting the formation of more centralized purchasing networks.

Health Care Transformation Task Force says 75 percent of the members will convert by 2020 as Medicare plans to tie 50 percent of payments to quality by 2018.

Politician plans to block the merger on the grounds that it would make the state's largest health system too big to function fairly.

Will it be an 'all-hands-on-deck' day, or will you be prepared in advance?

Although we've heard "no more delays" from CMS before about the deadline for ICD-10 conversion only to see it postponed again, healthcare decision-makers should treat Oct. 1, 2015, as a set-in-stone launch date, industry analysts say.

Providence Health in the northwest and Novant Health in the southeast are pushing population health, high technology and other options that are creating value and improving care.