Hospitals nationwide saw improved margin performance in 2019 over 2018. Learn more about overall hospital trends YOY in our 2019 Year in Review.

Patients in an emergency department (ED) waiting room on a Saturday night may disagree, but healthcare professionals know the industry moves at a frenetic pace. That’s why so many...

Value-based care, consumerism, and the pressure to strengthen balance-sheets demand a new breed of healthcare finance leader. Read Kermit's thoughts on how healthcare CFOs can disrupt themselves.

Almost all hospital executives responding to a recent survey said that their organizations should be doing more to leverage financial and operational data to inform strategic decisions. Learn more.

Benchmarking is “comparing one’s business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and best practices from other companies’." It’s a time-honored practice and adds value by...

Focusing higher-intensity costing methods on high-impact areas creates efficiency and ensures stakeholders that their time is being spent on efforts of value to the organization.

When it comes to evolving payment models, CFOs have an opportunity to revamp their playbook for strategic decision making—and drive big wins.

The challenges faced by hospitals and health systems on multiple fronts are significant and well documented. The business environment is exceedingly demanding for management teams as...

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.

Learn what makes strategy execution so challenging, and how to leverage process and software to help overcome these challenges.

Hospital leaders need to access accurate and reliable data and analytics in order to identify opportunities to improve financial and clinical performance.