Intense cost pressures have driven partnerships across healthcare. Yet few ultimately achieve intended cost synergies. Learn how healthcare leaders should react.

Few organizations can maintain themselves for an extended period when total expenses are greater than total revenues. Read more in our report.

This is the first of a three-part Performance Improvement series. Future articles will explore reducing clinical variation and strategies for engaging physicians in performance...

Healthcare organizations should set multiyear savings goals in the range of 25-30 percent over a five-year period.

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

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.

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.

Healthcare leaders can leverage a Results Management Office to drive accountability, transparency, responsibility, and results.

Partnerships are accelerating as participants in healthcare reposition themselves for a value-based, population health-focused delivery system. Developed for hospitals, health systems...