In an unpredictable healthcare landscape, understanding how your hospital compares to similar organizations is essential for building financial stability and driving improvement. This e-book outlines six practical steps for using comparative analytics to uncover opportunities, benchmark progress, and guide smarter decisions.
By comparing your performance to local and regional peers, you can:
As healthcare leaders navigate an ever-changing healthcare environment, they need a strategy that allows them to remain nimble in response to shifting market conditions. Service line planning allows organizations to continually analyze their operations to drive informed decision-making in real time. Yet many organizations face barriers, such as varied service line definitions, misaligned incentives, or unreliable data.
Key findings from our Q1 2025 report include:
Financial performance stabilized for many healthcare organizations throughout 2024, and healthcare leaders are cautiously optimistic they’ll retain those financial gains in 2025. Our annual survey of healthcare finance professionals found that more than two in five (44%) said they expect operating margins will remain about the same from 2024 to 2025, while over a third (36%) expect operating margins will increase.
Join peers, Strata experts, and industry leaders for two days of insightful sessions, and hear how healthcare organizations across the country are tackling today’s biggest challenges. Leaders from peer organizations will share best practices that will help you propel your organization’s financial planning, analytics, and performance processes.
CHICAGO – July 1, 2025 – Hospital and health system operating margins held steady in May, as more than two years of consistent growth in total revenues helped offset the impacts of ongoing expense increases, according to new data from Strata Decision Technology.
CHICAGO – June 24, 2025 – Strata Decision Technology, LLC (Strata), a leader in the development of cloud-based financial planning, analytics, and performance tools for healthcare, today announced the launch of its innovative new solution, StrataJazz® Position Control.
