Strategic Planning

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.

While the sector is struggling, one expert offers these financial tips for enhancing investment assets to shore up balance sheets at hospitals and health systems.

Consumer-focused patients are changing everything about how they receive care, and to ignore that is to risk deep losses, panel says.