HealthFirst Financial: Opening the Door to Affordable Health Care
KaLynn Gates, president and corporate counsel for HealthFirst Financial, discusses how a patient-centered financing program can drive patient satisfaction and enhance loyalty while improving organizational financial performance.
Contracting With Physicians to Tackle Pervasive Challenges
Hospital efficiency improvement programs allow organizations to address quality and efficiency goals across service lines by providing all inpatient-focused specialties with financial rewards if they achieve specific outcomes.
Moving Toward a Revenue Ecosystem
To maximize results, healthcare finance leaders should establish an integrated view of the organization’s entire revenue ecosystem, aligning across organizational strategy, payer contracting, clinical operations, and revenue cycle drivers.
Strategic Financial Planning: Summer 2017
Subscribers can access the Summer 2017 issue of Strategic Financial Planning.
Action Steps for Health System Innovation
Four strategies can drive an innovative spirit within health systems.
Thinking About Robotization: It’s More than Efficiency and Costs Savings
Healthcare leaders should consider the impact of robotics implementations on various stakeholders by using a risk and reward analysis.
4 Best Practices for Effective Post-Allocation Management
Thoughtful design and implementation of capital post-allocation management encourages project sponsors to meet the performance targets established in their business plans.
Taxable Debt Offers Finance Flexibility
As healthcare delivery evolves beyond acute care, not-for-profit healthcare leaders are increasingly turning to the taxable debt market.
Using Stakeholder Input to Design Healthcare Facilities
Using a Lean design process, Lee Health created a life-size mock-up of clinical and administrative facilities to optimize patient flow and staff flow before drawing the designs for a new outpatient facility.
Smartphone App Helps Users Identify Nearest EDs
Krislyn M. Boggs and Carlos A. Camargo, Jr. describe how the Massachusetts General Hospital-based Emergency Medicine Network helps people find the nearest emergency department.