Hidden Costs of Duplicate Patient Records
Accurate patient data is more important than ever as value-based payment models take hold. An enterprise-wide database is one solution to avoid duplicate patient records that negatively affect productivity and costs.
Leading Hospitals Turn to Advanced Strategies for Pharmacy Savings
Organizations like Froedtert Health and Intermountain Healthcare are working on both internal and collaborative strategies to reduce pharmacy costs and improve clinical care.
Time Is Money: Aurora Health’s 5-Month Cost Accounting Journey
Recognizing the intense multidisciplinary effort required to implement cost accounting, Aurora Health followed a step-by-step approach that emphasized structure, validation, training, maintenance, and optimization.
Three Factors to Consider in Developing High-Performing Ambulatory Care Networks
Craig Holm and Meredith Inniger explain how and why to address optimal service mix and configuration, innovative delivery models and approaches, and consumer orientation.
Setting a Course for Growth Through Optimal Service-Line Performance
For a health system, developing the analytics required to manage service-line performance across the care continuum involves an evolutionary process from rudimentary and intermediate to advanced and, ultimately, innovator stages.
Healthcare Delivery Disruption: Four Practical, Strategic Approaches
Craig Allan Ahrens and David Fairchild discuss the opportunities healthcare organizations have to employ disruption strategies.
April 2-6 Policy Watch: National Opioid Summit to Highlight Challenges
March 29—Policymakers and healthcare providers will gather in Atlanta next week to identify effective approaches to an opioid crisis that appears to be worsening, according to new data.
Pursuing Data-Driven Workforce Management
This article discusses how Premier Inc. partners with health systems to reimagine workforce management, offering integrated data and advisory services to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and drive performance.
The Future of the Hospital
Reduced utilization of hospitals has many calling their future usefulness into question.
HealthTrust: Optimizing Purchased Services
Andrew Motz, assistant vice president, supply chain consulting at HealthTrust, discusses the value of a data-driven approach when procuring purchased services.