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.
Video: The Benefits of Behavioral Economics
David Asch, MD, executive director of the Penn Medicine Center for Healthcare Innovation, discusses how behavioral economics can help the healthcare industry enable health-oriented behavior.
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.