Strategic Planning

While economic pressures are external drivers, there are several internal indicators that may signal when an independent hospital should consider aligning itself with a partner.

Recent research indicates that primary care physicians who participated in a quality-reporting incentive program saw patients make "greater improvements" in cardiovascular disease preventive care than the patients of fee-for-service providers.

Lawyers for a radiology practice are asking a federal appeals court in Richmond to let them challenge Virginia's certificate of need law, after a district court dismissed a lawsuit brought against the Virginia Department of Health.

The burgeoning market for clinical analytics solutions hinges on hospital margins following new payment reform.

Author Hamad Al-Daig talks about implementing and investing in a healthcare data warehouse.

Authors George T. Hickman and Detlev (Herb) Smaltz talk about their healthcare IT planning book and the role of finance administrators HIT strategy.

With labor costs in 2013 accounting for approximately 60 percent of hospital and health system operating budgets, many healthcare systems and hospitals have begun assessing high-labor cost areas with an eye to curbing those costs.

Given the uneven financial performance of the Pioneer ACOs, C-suite executives are no doubt wondering: What secret sauce allows some ACOs to succeed while others fall short of their financial goals?

Because models for accountable care organizations are so new, it's difficult to predict if they will develop along the lines evident today, or morph into something else.

The senior population isn't just exploding in the United States. It's a global phenomenon that is offering seniors housing developers in the U.S. business opportunities abroad.