Home » Health Care » Hospitals

Recent Thinking

Featured Health Care, Hospitals Article, service strategies US hospitals
Service-line strategies for US hospitals

July 2008

All signs point to a more specialized future for US hospitals. But getting from here to there won’t be easy.

Featured Health Care, Hospitals Article, innovation health care
Innovation in health care: An interview with the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic

March 2008

Delos "Toby" Cosgrove discusses innovation in health care—including a key role for top executives to play in reducing the nation’s health care burden.

Featured Health Care, Hospitals Article, national health system UK
A healthier health care system for the United Kingdom

February 2008

New research indicates that leadership by clinicians and talent management are the keys to making things better.

The Archive

2007
A better hospital experience

November 2007

Hospitals must learn what commercially insured patients and their physicians look for when choosing facilities—and how to deliver it.

Overhauling the US health care payment system

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.

Transforming US hospitals

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.

2006
US hospitals for the 21st century

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.

2004
A consumer view of boutique health care

February 2004

Fee-based services could help hospitals provide better care for all patients.

2003
Healing Eastern Europe's hospitals Premium Content

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.

2002
The case for boutique health care

May 2002

By offering comfort and convenience to people willing to pay for them, nonprofit hospitals could finance better care for everyone.

2001
Hospitals get serious about operations

May 2001

The income statements of hospitals have been ailing. The cure? Serious attention to operating efficiency.

2000
Hospital, heal thyself Premium Content

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.

1999
M&A Malpractice Premium Content

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?

1998
Group purchasing is not a panacea for US hospitals Premium Content

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.

1996
Building hospital market power through horizontal integration - is it working? Premium Content

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.

1995
Healthcare’s IT mistake Premium Content

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.

Member Log in

forgot password?