Addressing today’s healthcare challenges requires the right data
HFMA National Chair Tammie Jackson discusses why healthcare organizations must ensure they are using the right data when seeking to address the social determinants of health.
Reframing health as an investment: What we stand to gain
FMA President and CEO Joe Fifer discusses the implications of reframing health as an investment rather than an expenditure.
How a health system can realize tangible benefits from its digital health strategy
Many health systems today are intent on developing and implementing an effective digital health strategy, and their CFOs are likely to play a prominent and collaborative role in this effort.
Time for another extension of the COVID-19 public health emergency?
Hospitals and other healthcare providers are starting to ask whether it would be prudent and appropriate for the government-declared public health emergency (PHE) to be extended once again.
Let’s apply a wider view — and approach — to health equity
HFMA Chair Tammie Jackson urges healthcare finance leaders to think broadly when considering factors that lead to health disparities and finding new ways to promote health equity.
The Great Resignation: Reality or myth?
The predicted “Great Resignation” is upon us, but there are things leaders can do to both stem the losses and seize the opportunity to become an employer of choice.
Expense increases offset physician practice productivity and revenue gains
Physician groups across the country saw productivity and revenue improvements in the second quarter of 2021 compared with both the same period in 2020 and pre-pandemic levels seen in Q4 2019, according to Kaufman Hall’s latest Physician Flash Report. However, significant increases in expenses and continued high levels of physician investment compared with the pre-pandemic period remain areas of concern.
Want to foster innovation in healthcare? Give it a foster home
There is a way for healthcare organizations to mitigate the risk, while still enjoying the benefits, of a successful innovation. Instead of developing innovative projects on their own, they may find fostering innovation in others brings rewards that make it worthwhile.
Why rekindling the romance in medicine could spur innovation
Romance in medicine refers to the passion reflected in the wonder and optimism with which healthcare’s great visionaries in healthcare explored the mysteries beyond human understanding in their times. It is an important quality that should be cultivated in our time.
Two infrastructure bills have significant implications for healthcare and bipartisanship
Congress’ handling of two mammoth bills may well determine the political tone in Washington and whether there will be any room for bipartisanship for the remainder of President Joe Biden’s term.