Your Hospital, the Entrepreneur
Forget those fixed-income investments. Many organizations are funding early-stage healthcare ventures that can yield not only healthy financial returns, but also improved efficiencies and better quality care.
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Rankings Under Fire
Amid calls for greater transparency in payers' physician ranking programs, many health plans have agreed to a new national model.
Amid calls for greater transparency in payers' physician ranking programs, many health plans have agreed to a new national model.
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Mergers Make a Comeback
It may not be the 1990s all over again, but hospital consolidation is picking up.
It may not be the 1990s all over again, but hospital consolidation is picking up.
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I Have to Learn This, Too?
Why healthcare executives major in leadership and minor in everything else.
Why healthcare executives major in leadership and minor in everything else.
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The Expanding Data Bridge
A dispute among key members will not derail the Cincinnati-based HealthBridge data exchange, says CEO Bob Steffel.
A dispute among key members will not derail the Cincinnati-based HealthBridge data exchange, says CEO Bob Steffel.
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Service Line Performance
Fact File: The days when general excellence was enough for hospitals are long gone. Payers and an increasingly savvy public want to know which facility is best in specific service areas, forcing hospital leaders to make difficult decisions about which service line to strengthen and which one is a dead end. Ensuring service line success is a challenge for hospitals, which must balance the question of what they do best with the market realities of demand and competition. A shifting patient base, including a flood of aging baby boomers who will live longer than previous generations and need a multitude of procedures, only complicates the equation.
Fact File: The days when general excellence was enough for hospitals are long gone. Payers and an increasingly savvy public want to know which facility is best in specific service areas, forcing hospital leaders to make difficult decisions about which service line to strengthen and which one is a dead end. Ensuring service line success is a challenge for hospitals, which must balance the question of what they do best with the market realities of demand and competition. A shifting patient base, including a flood of aging baby boomers who will live longer than previous generations and need a multitude of procedures, only complicates the equation.
Tea Leaves
Some thinkers would have us believe that we spend too much time looking into the state of current events and using those events to extrapolate what the future holds. Futurists, however, point to the industry tea leaves and warn us that healthcare is facing an unprecedented crisis.
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