Examining the Economic Impact of a Physician Shortage
The changing regulatory environment in health care adds even more urgency to a looming physician shortage that will continue to impact health care and its delivery over the next decade.
Taking Stock of Surgery: Is It Time to Revisit Your Assumptions?
Advisory Board’s John Johnston discusses the importance of reevaluating surgical performance to ensure you are positioned to capture new business—and deliver cost-effective care.
Community Paramedicine: A Value-Oriented Strategy
Community paramedicine is proving its worth as a bridge between primary care and emergency care and a way to fill gaps in the underlying healthcare infrastructure.
Medical Trainees Learn to Recognize Clinical Overuse
Brandon Combs says a voluntary writing exercise at University of Colorado School of Medicine helps medical trainees reflect on patient harms arising from clinical overuse.
One-Stop Shopping for Healthcare Services
As consumerism gains traction in health care, health systems are borrowing the imperatives of the retail industry, including by consolidating and reorganizing their services into central locations.
Optimizing the Preauthorization Process
Senior healthcare provider and health plan leaders examine the difficulties associated with preauthorization and offer strategies for how stakeholders can collaborate to optimize the process.
Preparing the Healthcare Workforce for Value
Healthcare leaders are taking various steps to ensure their workforces evolve to meet the demands of value-based care, but long-term solutions require collaboration across the spectrum of care.
Not Yet Free from Harm
Tejal Gandhi addresses ways healthcare organizations can pursue the goal of greater patient safety.
Leveraging Scale for Value in a Decentralized System
A major initiative to bring University of California Health’s five campuses together as a system began with a successful revenue cycle project.
Care in Place: Bringing Care Back to the Future
Atrius Health leaders describe a new home care program that keeps patients out of the hospital through the provision of coordinated care.