Many organizations have an opportunity to address a difficult-but-essential element of cost transformation: reducing inappropriate clinical variation. Hospital and health system...

Physicians recognize the need to use clinical data to identify clinical variation that adds cost without enhancing quality of care. At the same time, physicians need a high level of confidence in how data are gathered, analyzed, and deployed.

Successful use of comparative analytics requires high-quality data, technology, and often cultural shifts. The lack of good data and insight into costs and where savings opportunities exist continues to be the top-cited impediment to cost transformation, according to Kaufman Hall’s latest survey.

Hospitals and health systems nationwide are finding a need to reassess traditional definitions of capital amidst a rapidly changing healthcare environment.

Data and analytics are no longer “nice-to-have” tools; rather, they underpin an organization’s ability to achieve high-value care, defined as patient-centric care with improved quality and outcomes, at lower costs.

When dashboards are well-designed, they allow more time to analyze what the data mean, rather than spending hours determining what the data are.

Our client, West Tennessee Healthcare, recently spoke with Healthcare Finance News about their Axiom EPM implementation, the success they’ve seen with the software, and its ease of use. Excerpt of article below.

This article in the June issue of hfm magazine describes a systemwide assessment performed by one health system in preparation for comprehensive strategic cost transformation.

Organizations should assess current budget processes to better understand their general approach and potential shortcomings.

Kaufman Hall Vice President Jay Spence discusses controlling labor costs while ensuring high-quality care in this article in the May 20, 2016 issue of Healthcare Finance.

Delivering effective productivity reporting and labor analytics requires a long-range view and a focus on continuous improvement. Learn more.

Results management leaders serve as the owners and direction setters to accomplish effective change.