Integrating healthcare financial analytics into decision-making processes is increasingly vital as hospitals and health systems nationwide contend with high costs, narrow margins, shifts in patient demand, and other financial and operational pressures.

As the largest share of overall expenses for most healthcare organizations, managing labor expenses is critical to ensuring both effective patient care and financial stability.

Across healthcare, there is a pressing need to understand the true costs of delivering care. This report, developed for the American Hospital Association, discusses the limitations of...

A comprehensive guide to enabling time-driven costing for your organization

Today, a new category is emerging for healthcare: the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) system. An EPM system is a healthcare software platform that integrates both financial and clinical views, using these data sources to spark insights with information.

July 10, 2020 problem Quantify Impact of Improved Quality of Care While healthcare organizations have long believed that higher quality amounts to lower cost, quantifying the impact of...

December 22, 2021 problem Leadership Lacked Forum to Engage Stakeholders on Performance Variances Hospitals and health systems have historically spent countless hours across their...

December 22, 2021 problem Organizations Struggle to Engage Physicians in Cost and Quality Efforts Hospitals across the country are focusing their efforts on cost containment as they...

May 26, 2020 problem Leaders Need Data to Understand Performance Most health systems struggle to get relevant, timely information to department leaders and executives to enable data...

April 21, 2021 problem Leadership Lacks Forum to Engage Stakeholders on Performance Variances To address financial performance variance and develop strong resolution plans...

December 7, 2021 problem Thin Margins Have Made Community Hospitals Vulnerable to Acquisition Following the global pandemic of COVID-19, hospitals and health systems across the country...

September 16, 2022 problem Organizations Lack Structure and Buy-In to Commit to Variation-Based Cost Savings Initiatives Hospital leaders are facing many new and complex challenges...