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.

Healthcare organizations should clearly identify in their financial modeling what they "know" and what they don't know.

Best practices for creating and supporting a high-functioning cost accounting and decision support team.

Learn more about how MultiCare is bridging the gap between information and action with the help of the Axiom Cost Accounting solution.

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

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

One of the biggest cost drivers in healthcare is inappropriate clinical variation. For organizations that can no longer cut their way to covering operation losses, addressing the...

Learn about the four essential characteristics of financial tracking and reporting software systems that help ensure the long-term success of cost management efforts.

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