8 key strategies for improving a hospital’s margins

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/8-key-strategies-for-improving-a-hospital-s-margins.html

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As healthcare shifts toward value-based care, hospitals are looking for new ways to improve quality without unnecessarily increasing the cost of care.

“We think less about cost cutting and more about margin improvement,” says Allen Miller, CEO of COPE Health Solutions. “Folks are going to be more successful taking a strategic approach and focusing on improving margins by taking risks and building the type of infrastructure that will support value based contracts through which they take financial risk instead of the traditional cost-cutting approach.”

Here are some key strategies for financial success:

Is Anyone Using That Dashboard You Created?

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In this era of people analytics, many HR leaders feel they ought to be producing dashboards. The problem is that they don’t know why — and that is one heck of a big warning sign. I’ll keep this brief, but here are a few headlines on how not to mess up dashboards.