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5 Steps To Better Contract Management For Hospitals
This article was written by Lisa Miller. Every hospital has experienced a cost impact of COVID-19, but some of those costs may be more difficult to uncover. This blog outlines five steps to better contract management for hospitals and highlights the ways to identify...
10 Reasons Why Nurses Are Uniquely Situated To Shape The Future of Healthcare
This article was written by Jim Cagliostro. “Nurses remain uniquely situated to shape healthcare due to their team approach, proximity to the bedside, and understanding of patient care within the hospital and the community.” (Institute of Medicine, 2010; Luther &...
The Role of Nurses in Cost Savings & Efficiency
This article was written by Sue Farkas and Jim Cagliostro. Nurses increasingly play an integral part in helping health systems to identify cost savings, improve efficiencies, and deliver better patient care. For years, hospitals have faced the reality of growing...
Effective Cost Management For Hospitals in a Period of Change
This article was written by Lisa Miller. Change is recognized as the one constant factor in the healthcare sector. Sometimes that change is impossible to predict, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown. Our two part blog series on finance and budgeting, summarized below,...
COVID-19 Response: Hospital Recovery Strategy
This article was written by Lisa Miller. While COVID-19 continues to pose a global threat, healthcare organizations must begin to plan their recovery from this crisis now. A return to baseline will prove both costly and time consuming, but an effective, sustainable...
5 Ways Your Hospital is Losing Money and How to Stop It
This article was written by Lisa Miller. The push towards price transparency and value based care continues, placing additional pressure on already squeezed hospital margins. For organizations seeking additional strategies to drive margin improvement, here are 5 ways...
Physician Preference Items (PPIs): Strategies For Cost Management
This article was written by Lisa Miller. Physician Preference Items (PPIs) are defined as preferred supplies, instruments, implants or medical devices that physicians choose to use in patient treatments. Our three part blog series on Physician Preference Items (PPIs),...
3 Steps to a Total Management Cost Savings Approach: Reconciliation
This article was written by Pandush Mitre. The implementation of a sustainable cost savings and management system in your healthcare organization begins with the reconciliation of your existing contracts and invoices. This is achievable with three steps to a total...
The Only Constant in Healthcare is Change
This article was written by Lisa Miller. Albert Einstein gave his students at Princeton the exact same final exam every semester for twenty years. After just a couple of years, his students figured out the predictability of the questions, and so did his fellow...
Effective Budget Management and Healthcare Innovation – Part 2
This article was written by Lisa Miller. In part 1 of our budget management series, we highlighted the many complexities which are found in the healthcare industry. In this second part, we explore effective budget management and healthcare innovation. Part 1 recap In...
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