Budgeting

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.

Clinical trials are important to the development of new drugs, medical devices and procedures, but budgets for these trials are under increasing pressure.

In a report released by the Unversity of Calgary's School of Public Policy, Professor Hugh Grant makes the argument that physicians' incomes have risen far too high while financial problems plague Canada's healthcare system.

Healthcare providers must carefully balance the need to control costs against their mission to deliver the highest quality care. One of the multiple paths to this end may be the use of reverse auction services to strategically source and negotiate contracts.

Hospitals, physicians and payers will focus information technology investments on highest-priority and efficiency projects to meet regulations.

Lee Powe, CIO of Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital in Elkin, North Carolina, talks about some of the increased costs associated with readmission rates, patient flow and excessive lengths of stay.

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.

Massachusetts' first annual report on the commonwealth's healthcare market shows a limited movement away from fee-for-service and a market concentrated among a few large payers.

Healthcare prices in the United States rose marginally from June to July 2013, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, although the rate of increase was higher than a year ago.

Farzad Mostashari, Dick Foster and Uwe Reinhardt lead a panel discussion at Health Datapalooza IV to discuss whether or not the current surge in public and private sector spending on health IT programs is going to reduce healthcare costs.