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Hospital performance in November signals continued stabilization and growth as operating margins improve. The median Kaufman Hall Calendar Year-To-Date Operating Margin Index reflecting actual margins was 2.0% in November.

On today’s episode of Gist Healthcare Daily, Kristine Lee, MD, Associate Executive Director of Virtual Medicine, Technology, and Innovation at The Permanente Medical Group, joins the podcast to share what the 10,000-physician group is seeing from its current pilot of an ambient AI scribe.

Artificial intelligence is developing rapidly and relentlessly pushing into business practice generally, and healthcare specifically. Healthcare leaders must learn how the endless potential applications of AI might affect their organizations in the very near future.

The concepts of fluid and crystallized intelligence explored by Arthur Brooks in his new book, “From Strength to Strength,” offer a new way for health system leaders to look at their executive team and find the proper balance between different types of intelligence.

The latest Kaufman Hall Report includes an inside look at strategies for successful payer-provider partnerships in a rapidly changing macroeconomic climate.

Watch Kaufman Hall’s Performance Improvement practice discuss insights from our 2023 State of Healthcare Performance Improvement report. The webinar features expert commentary on issues affecting the workforce, the revenue cycle, care transitions, supplies and purchased services, the physician enterprise, and the balance sheet.

How can board members play a helpful role in rating agency meetings if they are invited to attend? Here are three ways in which board members can add value to the rating presentation.

This week’s graphic features our assessment of the many emerging competitive challenges to traditional health systems.

Hospital performance in October reflects continued stabilization with margins above pandemic levels and volumes holding steady. The median Kaufman Hall Calendar Year-To-Date Operating Margin Index reflecting actual margins was 1.2% in October.

A changing interest rate environment has reopened the opportunity to consider terminating an organization’s swap position. Organizations should take a measured approach in determining whether this is an opportunity they wish to pursue.

Responses to Kaufman Hall’s 2023 “State of Healthcare Performance Improvement” report indicate ongoing concern regarding covenant challenges in 2024. Organizations need to understand the causes of covenant misses and near misses and build a durable financial plan for the future.

Explore the current state of health system growth and performance measurement; progress the industry has made in adopting consumer-centric, relationship-focused metrics; the barriers they face; and the types of decisions and strategies that arise from taking a more consumer-centric approach.