Beware the Style Du Jour
HFMA Career Coach Joe Abel studies the life of interior designer and fashion icon Iris Barrel Apfel, who famously stated, "Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself."
Moving Toward a Revenue Ecosystem
To maximize results, healthcare finance leaders should establish an integrated view of the organization’s entire revenue ecosystem, aligning across organizational strategy, payer contracting, clinical operations, and revenue cycle drivers.
Ask the Experts: Budget Staffing
Do you have a single position responsible for the capital and operating budget function across your health system, or is the function spread out with positions responsible for a specific function such as operating budget separate from capital and fixed assets?
Action Steps for Health System Innovation
Four strategies can drive an innovative spirit within health systems.
Present Opportunities for Professional Growth
A clinical documentation improvement (CDI) advancement ladder is a useful mechanism for attracting and retaining top talent among clinical documentation specialists in an increasingly competitive market.
Choosing the Right Leader Can Help Organizations Overcome Roadblocks to Results
Many organizations are establishing results management offices to guide outcomes, accountability, transparency, and responsibility. These offices serve as the primary oversight structure for driving cost transformation.
hfm Magazine: August 2017
hfm Magazine: August 2017
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.