AHA

Hospitals and their constituents must plan for and ensure efficiencies in processes and practices while maintaining the highest quality of care. It's not simply a matter of lowering costs; it is a matter of redesigning care practices to ensure best practiced, cost outcomes in everything the organization does. This is defined as how to reduce expenses while improving quality; "bending the cost curve" and access to information which provides visibility into business analytics to improve decision making.

Clinical Integration focuses on efforts that ensure collaboration among different health care providers and sites to ensure higher quality, better coordinated and more efficient services for patients. A key component to most clinical integration strategies involves greater information sharing across providers. This includes an information technology environment that supports clinical decision making, information management, communications and access by all stakeholders to ensure proper treatment and strategic decision making. Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) initiatives are big drivers of clinical integration.

With the convergence of current economics, health care reform, and workforce demographics, culture must support or adapt the changing environment (work and relationships will be redefined, etc.). This includes leadership, talent management, learning management, and performance management. There must be organizational alignment and commitment to quality and safety with consistent communication to and with all levels of the organization. Cultural transformation pervades all themes and should be addressed in our messaging throughout.

Financial capacity mitigates balance sheet stress, effectively manages risk and builds an optimal capital structure. Respond proactively to market change, ensuring financial strength and capital capacity. Establish strong appeal to capital markets through sustained operations, revenue growth and balance sheet strength.