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This paper describes the complexity of the staffing system, and suggests how the infusion of contemporary science with the art of current staffing could significantly improve staff allocation.

Recent news about investments in outpatient care among non-traditional competitors should put hospitals and health systems on notice: The nature of healthcare today is generating aggressive competition for patients and physicians. The stakes are high. Remaining competitive will require a planning process that is as nimble and assertive as that of new competitors.

“Digital strategy” is the phrase of the moment in healthcare. That’s no surprise, with 95 percent of Americans owning a cell phone, 88 percent using the internet, and 72 percent using services of the digital economy. Yet the focus of a truly successful digital strategy transcends what we usually think of as digital.

(Part 1 of a 3-part blog series) Banks and credit unions need an accurate, flexible, and transparent plan to guide their strategies for addressing external forces, such as economic volatility, regulation, competition, and changing customer demands.

Start the critical cost-reduction phase and take an in-depth look at clinical care, using data analytics.

As more patients turn to their laptops, tablets, and other devices for the expert advice of oncologists, cardiologists, radiologists, and other specialists in distant locations, local demand ultimately will diminish for those physicians, and/or their roles will change. It is not difficult to envision a future in which care diagnosis across the country, and perhaps even the world, is concentrated in a relatively limited number of “National/International Diagnostic Centers.”

Many healthcare providers are seeking the ability to form—or the opportunity to join—an integrated system or delivery network.

Overhauling the Mayo Clinic business model, digital solutions to the healthcare cost crisis, and other insights from recent articles.

Paul Crnkovich shows how Kroger's position as a grocery store suggests challenges and opportunities for healthcare providers.

Learn four key steps healthcare leaders can take to successfully integrate quality measures with cost accounting data to improve patient care outcomes and financial performance.

Learn five questions that trustees and healthcare executives should be asking to help ensure partnerships that will best position their organizations for success in a rapidly changing healthcare environment.

Disruptive forces are shifting the appropriate focus of the corridor of control from financial health to the balancing of risk against the resources available to offset or carry risk.