Featured Insights
2018 State of Cost Transformation: Time for Big Steps
The pursuit of lower costs is not a new priority for most hospitals and health systems. But has the talk translated into action? What goals have organizations set to transform costs, what progress are they making, and what impediments must be addressed?
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4 Strategies to Unlock Performance Management Constraints
Boost agility and preparedness for risk in the changing healthcare environment with four performance management strategies.
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Strategy Management: From Goals to Results
Read this whitepaper to learn the five attributes of organizations that are bridging the gap between setting strategy and executing on that strategy and how to do it.
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From Disparate Data to Informed Strategies
Sustain high-value care deliver and ensure long-term financial viability by applying data analytics related to cost, quality and patient experience.
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Clinical Analytics Insights
Sharp Healthcare Improves Clinical Quality Measures with Axiom Software
Based in San Diego, CA, Sharp Healthcare selected Axiom Clinical Analytics to support their goal of being in the 90th percentile or above for select clinical quality measures.
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Realizing Your Return on Analytics
Generating data alone does not bring clarity. A healthcare organization’s ability to sustain high-value care delivery and ensure its long-term strategic financial viability increasingly depends on how effectively it can apply data analytics to inform improvement efforts related to quality, cost, and patient experience.
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The Return on Analytics: Finding and Addressing the “Signals” in the “Noise”
The challenges faced by hospitals and health systems on multiple fronts are significant and well documented.
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Address and Reduce Inappropriate Clinical Variation
Many organizations have an opportunity to address a difficult-but-essential element of cost transformation: reducing inappropriate clinical variation.
Hospital and health system executives recognize the imperative to transform their organization’s costs as they transition to value-based
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Performance Improvement Insights
Summer 2019 Kaufman Hall Report: Consumer Expectations Raise the Bar Amidst Mounting Competition
The Summer 2019 Kaufman Hall Report provides highlights from our fourth annual State of Consumerism in Healthcare report, including recommended action steps for hospital and health system leaders working to move their organizations toward a more consumer-centric model.
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Making the Most of Your Workforce: The Tower Health Experience
Learn how Tower Health in Reading, PA used a new approach to workforce optimization modeling to achieve a new level of efficiency in nurse staffing, scheduling, and budgeting.
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A New Look at Hospital Length of Stay: Substantial Benefits Emerge through Focus on Care Transitions
Ensure the right care is delivered, in the right setting, at the right time, with the right workforce—every time, for every patient.
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Spring 2019 Kaufman Hall Report: A New Approach to Comparative Analytics
Today’s healthcare environment requires a new means to get the right comparative information to the right person at the right time.
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