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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.