Gamification: A New Tool for Improving the Performance of Healthcare Organizations
Through gamification, healthcare organizations can engage staff in performance improvement efforts by offering them nonmonetary incentives to pursue these efforts in the spirit of a game.
The Upside of Change
Reframing organizational change can be the key to making change management easier for all concerned.
On Being Bold: Inspirations From HFMA’s ANI
Healthcare finance professionals can take an inspirational lesson on being bold from of healthcare leaders who shared their stories at HFMA’s 2017 ANI in Orlando.
3 Lessons from a Physician Turned Population Health Leader
Virginia Gurley, MD, used to be an obstetrician and gynecologist, but she hung up her scrubs more than 20 years ago because she wanted to have a bigger impact on health outcomes. She writes about her career transition into population health.
Exploring Gender Variance Trends Among HIT Professionals
Rachel Marano, co-founder and managing partner at a national HIT consulting firm, says her awareness of gender disparity in the HIT field prompted her to take a hard look at gender-related trends in her company's 2017 Healthcare IT Market Report.
Diversity and Inclusion Programs Enable High-Quality Health Care
Are current organizational efforts to close diversity and inclusion gaps in health care enough? These gaps affect not only healthcare providers, but the patients they serve, says Adewale Soluade, assistant vice president of corporate inclusion and diversity manager at Commerce Bank.
Cultivating Cultural Dexterity Helps Companies Flourish
HFMA Career Coach Joe Abel takes a look at how being dexterous and deft can help healthcare organizations embrace diversity and inclusion initiatives.
July 2017 Issue
Read the July 2017 issue of Leadership Magazine.
Health System Develops Productivity and Quality Standards for Remote Employees
Texas Health Resources revenue cycle leaders measure productivity for remote workers by evaluating the daily number of accounts employees secure for insurance authorizations and pre-registrations.
Texas Health Resources Work-from-Home Program Increases Productivity, Employee Satisfaction
Since 2013, the health system has allowed more than 300 revenue cycle staff members to work from home. Employee evaluations show that remote workers perform at 113 percent productivity, while staff working in the office perform at 108 percent of the expected productivity level.