How to Optimize Enterprise Risk Management Strategy in Health Care
Engaging staff, assessing risk, and employing rapid-response plans, healthcare organizations are cross-functionally implementing enterprise risk management strategies to enhance the value of their services.
Has Value Become a Buzzword?
Our shared vision of value is at risk. We won’t attain high-value health care unless we agree on what that means.
The Evolution of Risk
These are the top risk categories identified by healthcare providers.
Federal and Other Initiatives That Are Transforming Provider Risk
Healthcare providers are increasingly taking on payment risk as a result of value-based payment arrangements being implemented by the federal government and the private sector.
New Program Seeks to Enhance Care of Elderly Patients
Two national organizations seek to spread the “Age-Friendly Health Systems” movement to 20 percent of all health systems by 2020.
3 Steps to a Purposeful, Positive, and Productive Work Culture
Leaders should place the same emphasis on valued behaviors as they do on performance results, then set about defining, aligning, and refining those behaviors.
Undoing Siloes to Improve the Patient Experience
A health system has improved the patient experience with a variety of new processes and protocols, including the introduction of a new patient access center and tutoring by physician coaches.
Hospitals, Health Plans Should Treat Information as a Prime Asset
Healthcare leaders should optimize information via a systematic framework of policies and procedures that are continually reinforced and updated so they become part of the culture.
The ‘Narrow Network’ Trap—and How to Avoid It
Establishing protocols for checking eligibility and benefits for every patient is one way that physician practices can avoid the traps posed by narrow networks. Insurance eligibility is getting even more complicated. Since the advent
Elements of an Effective Healthcare Venture Development Process
Health systems should employ a nine-step process when seeking to develop venture investments.