Strategic Planning

Making such investments could reduce a hospital's readmissions rates and morbidity, and help to avoid financial penalties and poor ratings.

Patients have gotten used to certain conveniences and now it's time for healthcare providers to pay attention or risk becoming irrelevant.

Pharmacy benefit manager alignments will help control the big expense of prescription drugs, Cigna and Aetna executives said in latest round of earnings calls.

Finance execs at the big payers all say the Medicare Advantage market will only get bigger, and more lucrative, as baby boomers retire and CMS adjusts payment rules.

In order to change the way care is delivered, an individual outfit needs to have a sufficient percentage of its practice in a value-based world. That balance can be tricky but hospitals won't succeed without it.

Arrowhead Regional and Daviess Community Hospital both went from rock bottom to top of the class by optimizing EHRs, instituting accountability and banking on the human element.

Compensation is determined by measures that address healthcare-associated infection rates, care coordination, palliative care and more.

American Hospital Association says that telehealth and connectivity are in jeopardy due to big cuts to rural healthcare.

Chief financial officers and directors of care coordination are also earning higher salaries amid the industry's transition to new payment models, the American Medical Group Association says.

Renamed Truven Health Analytics research initiative found that the highest performers achieved better care consistency and alignment across facilities.