About Us
HFMA’s Leadership initiative showcases examples of how leading healthcare organizations are driving down costs, enhancing quality, and collaborating across disciplines and care sites. The initiative highlights innovative providers such as Geisinger Health System, Cleveland Clinic, Spectrum Health, Sherman Hospital, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and many more.
The Leadership initiative includes:
o A twice-yearly print publication
o A monthly e-newsletter
o Special reports
o Webcasts
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Other opportunities, including live roundtables, video
interviews, virtual exhibits, and more.
Leadership’s current focus is on how healthcare organizations can transform care delivery. As payers, patients, and policymakers increasingly focus on improving value, or quality and efficiency, providers have a new priority. They must deliver the right care—whether that be preventive, chronic, outpatient, acute, or long-term care—at the right time and in the right way.
Performance improvement and cost containment efforts have been ongoing within hospitals, physician groups, and other providers for decades—with many admirable results. Most providers can quickly point to, for example, improved infection rates on a particular hospital unit or higher immunization rates among a particular patient population.
Yet many of the greatest achievements still remain to be achieved—and often depend on increased coordination and collaboration across providers and across care sites. Clearly payment system modifications are needed as well as changes in healthcare delivery.
Leadership offers practical, real-life examples of how providers are improving value and ensuring better coordination among care sites. Particular emphasis will be put on the following topics:
o Integration among hospitals, physicians, skilled nursing facilities, home care agencies, and other providers
o Driving out unnecessary costs while also improving quality
o Managing clinical and financial risks
Clearly, there is a long road still ahead. But providers that
focus on what’s right for patients—quality, safety,
satisfaction, and cost—will be able to navigate the road through
whatever weather patterns develop along the way.