Operations Management

HFMA’s Digital Annual Conference continues Aug. 12 and Aug. 14 with more virtual education for healthcare finance professionals

HFMA's Digital Annual Conference continues Aug. 12 and Aug. 14 with a focus on optimizing performance with the latest KPIs, using analytics strategies to lower cost and maximize revenue and using behavioral economics to engage patients.

Deborah Filipek January 22, 2021

Hospitals share lessons learned from AI ‘workers’

Hospital finance leaders have found opportunity and challenge from their growing use of artificial intelligence within their finance operations.

Rich Daly January 22, 2021

HFMA’s Digital Annual Conference continues July 15 and July 17 with more virtual education for healthcare finance professionals

HFMA's Digital Annual Conference continues July 15 and July 17 with sessions to help healthcare finance professionals handle revenue cycle and clinical care challenges amid the pandemic.

Deborah Filipek January 22, 2021

Amid ‘dire’ losses, some eye restart of hospital elective surgeries

As hospitals' financial losses mount, guidance emerges on restarting elective surgeries.

Rich Daly January 22, 2021

Gap between expenses and revenues narrows for community hospitals

Community hospital expenses moved closer to revenues between 2014 and 2018, according to the latest industry survey.

HFMA January 22, 2021

How healthcare organizations can use behavioral economics to get desired results from patients and staff

Karen Horgan, CEO of VAL Health, reviewed how healthcare finance professionals can use behavioral economics to get the outcomes they want from both patients and staff during an Aug. 14 session at HFMA's Digital Annual Conference.

Deborah Filipek January 22, 2021

Why healthcare organizations should adopt a transformational mindset coming out of COVID-19

As the healthcare industry starts to look beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders should consider how they can go beyond recovery to transform their operations.

Nick Hut January 22, 2021

How one hospital relied on sound business and finance processes as the foundation of its cultural transformation initiative

One key to the success of Bergen New Bridge Medical Center’s cultural transformation was an accompanying focus on business and finance strategy, two leaders said during a presentation at HFMA’s Digital Annual Conference.

Nick Hut January 22, 2021

To improve revenue cycle KPIs, Nebraska Medicine focuses on employee engagement

Nebraska Medicine improved the performance of its revenue cycle operation by emphasizing employee engagement.

Nick Hut January 22, 2021

Balancing margin and mission in the business of healthcare requires collaboration between clinical and finance colleagues

HFMA's Todd Nelson says the pandemic, like few other healthcare crises before, has placed the need for communication, coordination and collaboration with our clinical colleagues, especially in the nursing areas, squarely front and center.

Todd Nelson, FHFMA January 22, 2021
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