Quality and Safety
Doctors have balked at the increasing burden of implementing metrics, which cost roughly $15.4 billion annually to meet.
With transfers to larger hospitals comes a high cost burden, making it important for community-based organizations to strike the appropriate balance.
While the findings of two new research studies are unrelated, each is noteworthy in the opportunity presented to help bend the healthcare cost curve.
Mergers and acquisitions can result in economy of scale and other financial benefits -- but it can also be easy for patient access and services issues to go unaddressed.
New technologies bring the promise of earlier detection and automation, both with an eye on lowering costs.
AI technology is already in use in certain aspects of healthcare, such as diagnostic imaging, but it's being underutilized in several others.
Prior to the program's start, there was evidence that black patients had, on average, 20 percent higher readmission rates than white patients.
For those in a recent MGMA poll who say they are already on it, implementing technology plays a major role in their success.
Inability to coordinate nurses on the front line with the needs of the hospital is a recipe for creating burnout, which directly affects hospital finance.
The charter calls for institutional changes to work schedules, personnel policies, counseling and wellness programs.