Operations Management

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

How one provider organization uses data reporting and analytics to transform healthcare operations

As part of HFMA’s Digital Annual Conference, leaders with Privia Health explained how they have applied a multistage process to optimize their data-reporting procedures and analytics platform.

Nick Hut January 22, 2021

Digital Annual Conference featured session will provide insight on applying behavioral economics to drive patient engagement

The field of behavioral economics offers key insights for healthcare stakeholders, including how to promote positive patient behaviors.

Nick Hut January 22, 2021

3 tactics for unlocking value in healthcare operations

Three organizations share their approaches and results from case studies they presented at the HFMA Digital Annual Conference around solutions driving improved operational and revenue cycle performance in healthcare.

HFMA December 18, 2020
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