Strategic Planning
Among a variety of high risk, high reward investments for health systems, robotic surgery is emerging as a technology with lots of promise as well as conflicting evidence.
Seismic changes altering the healthcare industry are creating an increasing number of compliance requirements for hospitals and health systems to meet. This means a larger role for an organization's chief compliance officer.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is exporting its knowledge and management services around the world, to countries like China and Lithuania that are expanding healthcare for emerging middle class populations.
The "consumerization" of healthcare is helping to shape trends in healthcare real estate by contributing to significantly less hospital usage in certain regions of the United States.
The emergence of digital and retail health is a clarion call for hospitals and medical practices to innovate and improve the patient experience. However, providers could lose patients to retail companies if the seeds sown by the likes of CVS, Walgreens and Walmart take root.
The ability to speak before any audience, to make that audience understand complex financial topics, and to win them over to your expertise and authority are critical for a CFO's success.
Rural health providers may feel burdened by a confluence of policy and financing trends. But one opportunity, depending on the state, can help with sustainability.
Savvy financial officers at senior living facilities know that the key to the future of their business is care coordination. Trouble is, financial officers can't unlock that future because the technological key, a comprehensive EMR, is not yet available to the senior living market.
A new report by the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association paints a grim picture of the daunting financial challenges facing hospitals and other healthcare organizations in that state.
On the face of it, the industry is making great strides toward adopting value-oriented payment models, but the question of whether or not the industry is also reducing costs and improving care quality remains unanswered.