Strategy

Expert Insights

Strategic issues to watch in 2012

January 31, 2012 | Expert Perspective | Health Care Advisory Board

Advisory Board experts explore what's ahead in 2012 and provide insight to how the changes in 2012 could affect your strategic approach to health care.
New rules for service line growth

January 30, 2012 | Expert Perspective | Marketing and Planning Leadership Council

Learn to recalibrate service line strategies to compete for market share in a difficult economy.
Why dramatic labor cost cuts are not sustainable

November 22, 2011 | Expert Perspective | Health Care Advisory Board

Aggressive cost-reduction campaigns featuring wage freezes, large-scale reductions in force, and drastic restructuring of benefit designs may be effective in the short term, but such gains are often fleeting. Learn to achieve sustained cost improvement.

The High-Performance Medical Group

December 28, 2011 | Study | Health Care Advisory Board

Explore 15 key attributes of organizations that generate strong operational and clinical results by fostering integration among employed physicians and successfully managing physician practices at scale.
Running on Medicare Margins

September 16, 2011 | Study | Health Care Advisory Board

Provides a detailed look at the major forces shaping hospital margins across the next decade and discusses best practices for developing a comprehensive margin improvement strategy.
Playbook for Accountable Care: Lessons for the Transition to Total Cost Accountability

March 8, 2011 | Study | Health Care Advisory Board

Pursuing accountable care requires synchronizing the migration to new incentives for total cost accountability and new clinical strategies for population health management.

Inpatient Market Estimator

May 5, 2011 | Tool | Health Care Advisory Board

Generates population-based estimates of current and forecasted inpatient volumes, length of stay, and bed days for any geography within the United States; may be useful for market-sizing and strategic planning purposes.
Outpatient Market Estimator

May 5, 2011 | Tool | Health Care Advisory Board

Generates current and forecasted outpatient volume estimates for any geography within the United States.
Customized Medicare Value-Based Purchasing Impact Assessment

February 9, 2011 | Tool | Financial Leadership Council

Estimate the potential revenue impact of their institution’s quality performance under the methodology presented in CMS’s hospital inpatient value-based purchasing program proposed rule.

The new performance standard

January 6, 2012 | Infographic | Health Care Advisory Board

A graphical look at how trends in pricing, cost, payer mix, and case mix will impact operating margins—and what we must do to respond.
How accountable care affects your staffing strategy

January 6, 2012 | Infographic | HR Investment Center

Identify and address the staffing blindspots that might hinder the organization's accountable care strategy.
Realize the potential of clinical decision support systems

January 6, 2012 | Infographic | IT Strategy Council

Apply five principles to realize the full potential of CDS.

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