Productivity and Process Improvement

Burnout leads to mistakes, and as morale of nurses drops and discontent in the job grows, patient care suffers.

Finance leaders at Houston Methodist are true partners with clinicians, the hospital’s chief medical information officer said. They help validate the cost savings achieved through clinicians’ work to reduce variation.

Innovative thinking should create the right connection between a healthcare organization's technological capabilities and its processes.

Research conducted by HFMA and sponsored by EPSi shows that healthcare organizations are still grappling with technological and cultural issues as they attempt to implement effective analytics programs.

The excess medical cost per person with diabetes grew by 14% from $8,417 to $9,601 in 2017.

Results of a recent survey, in which hospital and health system leaders described areas where their organizations have the greatest need for performance improvement, point to four key strategic areas of focus for these leaders.

Providing high-quality and cost-efficient services is the first step traditional healthcare providers must take to stave off business disruption by new entrants and progressive incumbents into the market.

While the partnership should have been made public by Google and Ascension, this is the future of healthcare performance improvement.

The rollout of Haven insurance in 2020 for the 1.2 million combined employees of Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway should not be dismissed by other industry players.

Healthcare Innovation: Healthcare organizations should keep track of progress toward operating as a unified system after mergers and acquisitions.