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 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, IL — June 4, 2026 — Hospitals and health systems are increasingly relying on telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and advanced practice providers (APPs) to expand patient access and meet growing care demands. At the same timeYet, many organizations continue to face financial pressures from unreimbursed virtual care services, rising utility costs, and operating margins that remain near break-even levels, according to data from Strata Decision Technology's latest Strata Performance Trends report.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future concept in healthcare finance. It is actively reshaping how financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams operate today and redefining what will be expected of them tomorrow.
Our new, interactive Strata Town Hall is happening July 15, and there’s still time to save your spot. Join us for a focused 30- to 45-minute session exploring how healthcare finance leaders are using connected data and AI-driven insights to make faster, more confident decisions.
This session will feature:
Join your healthcare provider colleagues from the Dallas area to exchange strategies for tackling some of today’s biggest industry challenges. This unique event is meant to connect leaders from across the region, build relationships, and facilitate conversations around emerging trends and how to leverage Strata solutions and services to positively position your organization for success.
Join your healthcare provider colleagues from the Minnesota area to exchange strategies for tackling some of today’s biggest industry challenges. This unique event is meant to connect leaders from across the region, build relationships, and facilitate conversations around emerging trends and how to leverage Strata solutions and services to positively position your organization for success.
