CFOs are prioritizing margin management and data analytics investments this year, according to a new report from Strata. The healthcare performance management firm gathered data from 100 hospital ...

For more than a decade, hospitals have worked to help older adults avoid repeated inpatient stays, incentivized by a federal ...

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Emergency departments that have good data connections to emergency medical response data have a leg up on their speed-to-care rates and their ability to improve overall health outcomes. Likewise, ...

Healthcare is shifting toward a pay-for-performance future, and hospitals looking to succeed as healthcare trends toward value will have to place a large emphasis on population health. At the Becker’s ...

Hospitals across Rhode Island are required by federal and state law to post their medical pricing data, including the negotiated prices for procedures by insurer, to their websites in a ...

Health care cybersecurity policy rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of what cybercriminals actually want. For years, regulators and providers have assumed that medical records — diagnoses, lab ...

1. These are Forbes’ first-ever hospital ratings. Why is Forbes entering this space now? Healthcare quality can vary dramatically among hospitals. The differences between high-quality facilities and ...

Emergency departments (EDs) across the country are facing unprecedented challenges. Visit numbers continue to rise — along with patient complexity — resulting in crowding and longer wait times. 1 As a ...

Hospitals don’t suffer from a lack of data; they suffer when data can’t be translated into timely, accountable action. Clinical, registry, and operational information often sits in different systems ...