A recent study published in the American Heart Associations’ journal Circulation identified a concerning trend: When patients diagnosed with a stroke need to be transferred from a community hospital to a specialty center for endovascular treatment (EVT—mechanical...

Patient leakage from a health system network is an emerging critical issue facing healthcare leaders. As Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements continue to negatively affect operating margins for even high-performing health systems, competition for privately insured...

Health systems face many competing care quality and financial performance improvement priorities and new risk-based revenue arrangements. Faced with these challenges, it is no wonder that some health systems have not considered how increasing patient transfers from...

Over the last decade, health systems have invested substantial time and money in technology such as electronic health records (EHRs), secure communication, and decision support to improve patient care. However, systems in the midst of these technology upgrades often...

It’s no secret that health systems today face a multitude of financial pressures. Amid rising costs for delivering care, procuring drugs, maintaining cybersecurity, and operating a labor-intensive business, hospitals must also confront reductions in reimbursements...

There is no shortage of operational challenges for today’s health systems: Admissions bottlenecks, inefficient administrative processes, limited access to clinical data, and so on. Failing to solve these problems leads to wasted spending on health care services, which...

Bundled care is a hot topic these days. Also known as Episode Payment Models (EPMs), we are still seeing a plethora of articles, posts, papers and other pieces simply describing or defining the relatively new term. For a full description of the January 2017 Final...

This article originally appeared in Electronic Health Reporter Healthcare has been changing rapidly for the last 60 years and advances have now reached record speed, including in the realm of data intelligence. In trying to keep pace as well as to protect and advance...

Each and every day of the year, 24/7, patients enter our hospitals in need of care. Whether the stay is related to an overnight observation, a scheduled admission, or to many other diverse cases, an urgent/emergent event necessitates an unscheduled need to be...