Strategic Planning
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.
When it comes to hospital construction and design, the decisions around what is built and how it's built all have significant impact on not only an organization's bottom line, but also the quality of care given to patients.
Too often healthcare providers find themselves handicapped when it comes to optimizing business processes because their primary mission is care, and business comes second.
Hospitals are doing what they can to get an edge, and to help, they're turning to chief strategy officers.
Balancing the myriad concerns of a hospital’s workforce is no easy task. Challenges aside, however, it’s a balance worth achieving not only for quality patient care and staff happiness, but because a well-managed workforce is critical to survival in a time of rapid change in U.S. healthcare.
The number of accountable care organizations is rapidly increasing among private payers and with it some best practices are emerging as the new models significantly alter payer-provider relationships.
Medical coders have a strong incentive for mastering ICD-10 coding. Physicians not so much.
While the Great Recession has ended, it’s anything but back to business-as-usual for strategic and financial planners in the healthcare industry. The Affordable Care Act and the shift from the traditional fee-for-service payment system to an innovative fee-for-value system is seeing to that.
These should be the best of times for the patient safety movement. After all, it was concerns over medical mistakes that launched the transformation of our delivery and payment models, from one focused on volume to one that rewards performance. Yet I’ve never been more worried about the safety movement than I am today.
The earlier hospitals begin to plan and strategize for how they will handle the healthcare environment once health insurance exchanges are operational, the better, said Purva Rawal, senior manager of health reform at Avalere Health, during a webinar Thursday.