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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.

Carol A. Friesen, FHFMA, MPH July 31, 2017

Financial Leaders Are Key Collaborators in Patient Access Restructuring

Finance leaders provide critical information and expertise in healthcare organizations that are looking to improve patient access.

Rik Baier July 31, 2017

Taking Control of Pay-For-Performance Contracts

To ensure their organizations perform effectively under risk contracts, healthcare finance leaders should implement a work plan to manage the contracts.

Paul Selivanoff, CPA July 31, 2017

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. 

Virginia Gurley July 21, 2017

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.  

Rachel Marano July 21, 2017

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.  

Rachael Zimlich July 21, 2017

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.  

Joe Abel, CPCC, ACC, PhD July 21, 2017

INNOVATION IN PRICE TRANSPARENCY

This article was excerpted from a Leadership digital exclusive. For much more, see hfma.org Leadership PriceTransparency. Showing patients how costs vary by provider and facility may not be enough to improve value across the board. But coupling new benefit and

HFMA July 19, 2017

The New Knowledge Matchmaker

The latest AI applications in health care offer clinical options by pairing the most relevant evidence to individual patients based on their clinical and life context.

Laura Ramos Hegwer July 19, 2017

Integrating Behavioral Health Care and Primary Care

Various obstacles historically have prevented the integration of behavioral health care with primary care—but stakeholders see the tide turning, as they discuss in the latest installment of HFMA’s Healthcare Challenge Roundtable.

Kathleen Vega July 19, 2017
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