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By Richard Cowart CMS has reignited interest in ACOs by issuing regulations that considered industry comments and reduced the burdens and costs of participating in…

For Full coverage of the Final Rules, visit www.acoinsights.com) After months of speculation, and after reviewing more than 1,300 comments on the proposed rules, the…

From today’s Dail-E News The Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) (Washington, DC) announced the 2012 FAH Public Policy Conference and Business Exposition on March 4-6,…

The Harvard Business Review recently published an article that is particularly germane to healthcare organizations and healthcare leaders during this time of “healthcare reform” and…

For many of us, change is difficult, even if we know, intellectually, that we need to do things differently. Organizations, such as IDNs, find this…

In today’s economic uncertainty employee engagement is critical. Organizational engagement surveys are showing that employee frustration is accelerating as engagement plummets. They feel trapped. With…

Healthcare leadership and healthcare delivery is a constant, dynamic, learning lab.  Learning, relearning and improving is the very nature of our ever-changing, ever-evolving healthcare system….

The following is an excerpt from JHC November Digital’s cover story. To read the full article, Domino Effect, visit www.jhconline.com There’s gotta be a better…

When eight supply chain executives, all from large Premier healthcare systems, came together in the summer of 2010 to form the Large IDN (LIDN) Group,…

CHICAGO—Lawmakers, policymakers, consultants and hospital CEOs spend plenty of time talking about healthcare reimbursement, quality of care, individual mandates, etc. But lofty discussions aside, make…