Although health systems have seen some much-needed improvement to operating margins in recent quarters, these positive headlines mask a disturbing reality that illustrates the immense challenges most ...

The emergency department serves as the primary driver of admit volume in most hospitals, accounting for more than half of hospital admissions on average. If an ED fails to function efficiently — ...

Traditionally, health systems have operated and behaved as unified entities in name only, with different hospitals and facilities within the same system working off of their own sets of key ...

Health systems have historically operated like a real estate portfolio or a disparate collection of assets, with each site having its own performance metrics, finances and operating processes. Too ...

Systematic Patient Navigation Strategies to Scale Breast Cancer Disparity Reduction by Improved Cancer Prevention and Care Delivery Processes Electronic health records (EHRs) have been mainly used to ...

The Cleveland Clinic has signed a 10-year agreement with Palantir Technologies focused on use of the software company’s artificial intelligence technology to manage patient flows at the hospital ...

This study assessed health care utilization and patient flow after a recent merger of community practices, a community hospital, and an academic medical center. Objectives: Hospital mergers and ...

Appointment schedules should reflect physicians' work style and patient demands. One of the major mistakes many physicians make is thinking patient flow problems happen because of major time-consuming ...

It may not match the scale of the exodus of nurses from the healthcare workforce, but a growing shortage of physicians is no less of a threat to patient care. A recent survey found that one in five ...

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester has been recognized as one of the nation’s “Most Wired” for its use of health information technology (IT) to improve performance. According to the results of the ...