Healthcare systems can significantly reduce their operating expense capital outlays by better understanding their inventory of clinical assets, optimizing equipment use throughout the system and taking advantage of auction marketplaces.

Factors from COVID-19 to consumer preferences are driving healthcare out of traditional physicians' offices and hospital settings and into alternate sites of care, including outpatient, virtual and lower-acuity settings as well as home-based care. 

While environmental, social and governance ratings are increasingly important for organizations, they fall short when it comes to climate change ratings, according to law professor Felix Mormann and marketing professor Milicia Mormann, PhD, in a May 24 Harvard Business Review article.

The World Health Organization released a report May 23 that advises UN member countries how to evaluate the performance of health systems. 

Clinical labs affect 70 percent of medical decision making and touch every aspect of healthcare, according to the leader of a lab management and consulting firm.

In an effort to rein in healthcare costs for its employees, Walmart sends them directly to health systems that demonstrate high-quality care outcomes, otherwise known as Centers of Excellence.

Revenue cycle leaders need coding and billing to be compliant, accurate and fast. What are hospitals to do as the health care staffing crisis extends to coders, and bringing new coders fully up to speed can take six months to a year? 

Healthcare is one of the most highly targeted industries for cyberattacks, according to SonicWall's 2022 Cyber Threat Report. 

Futura Healthcare, a trusted industry partner delivering end-to-end healthcare advisory, consulting, and technology solutions, announced today their acquisition of Winola Lake Health IT.

The pandemic has created intense cash flow pressures for many health systems.

Over the last two years, healthcare organizations have been forced to become more agile and dynamic. For ongoing healthcare transformation to be successful, however, organizational agility must become the norm — not the exception. 

Your online reputation is critical to your practice's growth plan. The reason? Most patients start their healthcare journeys by reading online reviews.

Minimally invasive robotic surgery has evolved from ad-hoc acquisitions of robots by surgical departments to being part of an intentional programmatic approach designed to provide cutting-edge care.

Healthcare financial and operational leaders are grappling with major challenges like labor shortages, patient satisfaction and a proliferation of technology vendors to manage. Many leaders see the patient financial experience as ripe for transformation and believe that digital tools and new approaches to revenue cycle operations can help.

During a May Becker's Hospital Review webinar sponsored by HOPCo, Wael Barsoum, MD, the company's president and chief transformation officer, shared insights about the most common reasons VBC models fail and how organizations interested in implementing these models can reconceptualize them. 

Caught between the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic and care delivery models that have outlived their usefulness, healthcare is undergoing large-scale transformation — in terms of both staffing and models of care.

HHS and the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity released the first installment in its climate and health series May 6. 

Many organizations chose to stay silent when the Supreme Court's draft ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked, indicating a hesitancy of corporations to make a clear stand on the issue, reported The New York Times May 4.

CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch discussed the company's expansion at a May 4 earnings call, revealing it is continuing to push into primary care and improve its digital offerings. 

Intelligent automation — a tool leveraged across industries to accelerate and standardize workflows, solve staffing problems and elevate the user experience — has finally arrived in healthcare.