November 2007
Hospitals must learn what commercially insured patients and their physicians look for when choosing facilities—and how to deliver it.
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June 2007
During the next five years, rapid innovation may restructure the value chain of health care payments and change the sector’s balance of power.
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February 2007
Battered by competition and regulation, hospitals need fast, dramatic treatment: leadership that thinks strategically, builds quality, and aligns doctors with the goals of hospitals.
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August 2006
US hospitals rank among the triumphs of 20th-century technology and organization. Yet they must change drastically to adapt to the needs of the 21st.
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February 2004
Fee-based services could help hospitals provide better care for all patients.
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December 2003
The region’s governments can’t afford to provide quality health care for everyone. Hospitals must get creative to make up for the shortfall.
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May 2002
By offering comfort and convenience to people willing to pay for them, nonprofit hospitals could finance better care for everyone.
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May 2001
The income statements of hospitals have been ailing. The cure? Serious attention to operating efficiency.
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February 2000
Hospitals bought up the practices of primary-care physicians to gain additional patient referrals, but instead they transformed those physicians from entrepreneurs into salaried, complacent bureaucrats. The damage can’t easily be undone, but it can be mitigated in the present and avoided in the future.
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February 1999
Hospital mergers rarely produce the expected benefits. Market power, leverage over prices, and cost reductions have all eluded most of the consolidators. So why do some of them succeed?
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February 1998
Over the past decade, many US hospitals have achieved considerable savings by channeling purchases through group purchasing organizations. But GPOs are just one of many levers by which to improve hospital supply management.
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November 1996
1995 saw a huge leap in the number of hospital mergers and alliances in the United States, primarily in response to the expansion of managed care systems that have forced down hospital prices and utilization rates. Multihospital systems, however, do not necessarily outperform independent hospitals.
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August 1995
Tools, not toys. Billions have been invested in information technology. Where are the results? A failure to focus on productivity. Get practice guidelines to the point of care.
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