Discover why operational resiliency is critical for treasury leaders to maintain liquidity, manage risk, and ensure continuity during disruptions and system outages.

Academic medical centers face growing financial pressure as reimbursement declines, costs rise, and traditional funding models evolve—requiring new strategies to sustain research, education, and patient care.

At recent Vizient CEO Networks meetings, discussions focused on how structural pressure, chronic disease and AI are converging—and why executive alignment will determine what comes next.

Explore Kaufman Hall’s Capital Playbook for health systems, a guide to prioritizing investments, optimizing funding strategies, and strengthening financial resilience in a shifting healthcare environment.

As care expands beyond inpatient settings and quality scrutiny grows, hospitals must elevate clinical documentation integrity into a strategic, enterprise-wide capability supported by aligned leadership, strong processes, and thoughtful technology to accurately reflect patient complexity and performance.

As the use cases for artificial intelligence-enabled solutions (AI) continue to expand, many health system financial leaders are asking what the “right” level of IA investment is for their organization. against other priorities.

Learn why healthcare strategic partnerships falter and how to improve outcomes with credible business cases, aligned incentives, durable structures, rigorous due diligence, and simpler, effective agreements from real-world deal insights.

Explore why improving perioperative performance requires a systemwide, team-based approach—not just fixing individual metrics—and how hospitals can optimize OR capacity, coordination, and decision-making for sustained performance improvement.

Nurse managers sit at the center of workforce stability, care quality and financial performance. As burnout and turnover threaten health systems, supporting nurse managers has become a critical executive strategy for sustaining performance and growth.

For many health systems, the emergency department (ED) is the front door. Patients seeking emergency care arrive expecting timely care. Their ED experience often shapes their trust and impression of the organization.

In an era of increasing financial pressure, UK HealthCare has achieved impressive progress in reducing non-labor expenses through a coordinated strategy that blends analytics, process improvement and cross-functional collaboration.

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