Big Data: Another Emerging Disruptive Force in Health Care
A Texas hospital used big data to improve processes in magnetic resonance imaging.
For Hospitals Facing Hurricane Season, Preparation and Practice Are Critical
Stewart Simonson, former HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, points to four areas where potentially affected hospitals should consider revising their disaster preparedness plans in preparation for hurricane season.
Effective Merger Integration Requires Focus on All Four Pieces of The Treasury Platform
To achieve a truly effective merger integration, careful attention should be paid to treasury operations and invested assets, along with capital management and external financing.
Six Ways to Look at Your Next Consolidation
To avoid making changes simply for the sake of change, healthcare leaders should attend to any unfinished business from prior changes and ensure any new move toward consolidation accounts for future uncertainty as well as potential new opportunities.
Identifying Opportunities for Innovation in Healthcare Finance
Healthcare finance leaders should be attuned to the presence of opportunities for innovative improvements that may exist all around them.
The Experience Economy Is Coming to Health Care
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer discusses the implications of the experience economy for healthcare finance leaders.
Atul Gawande: A World of Promise
The appointment of Atul Gawande to lead the Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-JPM Morgan Chase healthcare venture could be an important step toward finding effective solutions to the deficiencies of the nation’s healthcare system.
Medicare Advantage for More: A Pragmatic Alternative to Medicare for All
An expansion of Medicare Advantage presents an opportunity for the U.S. to test the waters of a single-payer system.
Who’s Afraid of a Little Risk?
The Medicare ACO modeled advanced by CMS has encountered some challenges, but it still holds promise if CMS addresses the flawed idea of retrospective attribution of patients to an ACO.
Acute Care and Critical Access Hospital Occupancy Rate Variability by Location
An analysis of Medicare cost reports from 2016 shows that urban U.S. hospitals typically had higher occupancy rates than their rural counterparts, with notable exceptions in the Northeast and Arizona.