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Lurie Children’s leadership recognizes the need for continued organizational transformation amid a changing healthcare landscape. As a long-standing partner and strategic advisor to the organization, Kaufman Hall recently was engaged by Lurie Children’s to help the organization assess the impact of industry change on its marketplace, and shape a vision and related strategies for how the hospital should evolve in the years ahead.

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, the second largest commercial health insurer in the country, is sending a strong message to hospitals about their prices. That message is: “enough.”

Read the lead article to learn how healthcare leaders across the country are approaching cost transformation, the important role of reconfiguring the portfolio of businesses and service lines in reducing overall costs, and three steps on how to get started on portfolio reconfiguration and rationalization at your organization.

The pace of healthcare consolidation has been accelerating significantly. Between 2006 and 2016, the number of announced hospital and health system transactions increased 55 percent. As I discuss these trends with healthcare executives across the country, the question I hear most often is: What is the endgame?

Until recently, many hospital and health system executives have counted on relatively stable margins from laboratory departments. The economics of lab testing is changing dramatically due to market forces, including reduced Medicare payments, competition from national labs, higher cost sharing for patients, growth in bundled payments, and more.

Q&A with Bruce Lawrence, President and CEO, INTEGRIS Read this Q&A to hear how INTEGRIS positions itself for changes to healthcare's business model, if they are able to link consumer focus with strategy for growth, and how it approached innovation at the system level.

Post-allocation management ensures continued alignment of financial performance with strategic planning cash-flow requirements.

Q&A with Eugene Woods, President and CEO, Carolinas HealthCare System Read this Q&A to hear how Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS) approaches and organizes innovation initiatives, as well as how their President and CEO would advise others to go about embracing innovation and creative thinking.

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.

The latest Industry Flash Report looks at mergers, acquisitions, and partnership activity in the Home Health and Hospice sectors, including the major players involved, and the implications for hospitals and health systems.

Benchmarks for how well America’s hospitals and health systems are prioritizing consumerism and building consumer-centric capabilities.