Strategic Planning

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.

While it might not be the first question anyone with a stake in marketing their health system, practice or company, asks, the one thing that's really on their minds is how to get the most for their marketing and communications efforts and budget.

A perfect storm of demographic trends is creating a critical - and growing - gap between the demand for care and the number of doctors available to provide it.

The efforts of a number of hospitals across the country to improve the health of their patient populations by promoting healthy foods are a benefit to the hospitals themselves and their communities.

U.S. nonprofit hospitals' financial performance in fiscal year 2012 wasn't strong, and the outlook for FY 2013 doesn't appear to be much better.