Explore how mixed hospital volume trends, staffing challenges, and rising expenses are keeping operational and financial performance under pressure in 2026.

Health systems need service line dashboards that support faster decisions, align strategy and connect performance metrics to action.

Explore April 2026 hospital performance data, including margin pressure, expense growth, labor and drug costs, payer mix erosion, bad debt and charity care trends.

Explore how patient age influences care site preferences, with CDC data showing urgent care and retail clinic use varies across pediatric, adult and senior populations.

Explore how the AHA West Health Accelerator is helping scale healthcare technology innovation. Hear expert insights on adoption, partnerships, and the future of digital health in this Kaufman Hall podcast.

Discover how Americans’ digital health preferences are evolving, including trends in telehealth, virtual care, healthcare consumer engagement, digital healthcare tools, and patient expectations shaping the future of healthcare delivery and health system strategy.

Explore Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report featuring March 2026 data and insights on hospital margins, patient volumes, revenue trends, rising expenses, and the evolving financial pressures facing healthcare organizations.

In the final part of a three-part series, host J. Carlisle Larsen continues her conversation with Dr. Robert Wachter, Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and author of A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future.

CMS indefinitely suspends GLP-1 pilot, call for nominations for U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, UnitedHealth beats quarterly estimates.

A new framework shows how access and capacity reveal hidden constraints in health systems—and how to unlock throughput, improve loyalty, and expand margins.

In Part 2 of a three-part series, host J. Carlisle Larsen continues her conversation with Dr. Robert Wachter, on how AI scribes are transforming healthcare by reducing clinician burnout, cutting documentation time, and emerging as the fastest-adopted, high-impact AI use case.

AI maturity is not only a function of technical capability—it’s a reflection of how an organization leads, engages its people, and operationalizes change.