To ensure success in a partnership agreement, healthcare organizations should create a funds flow framework. An effective funds flow framework will address not only the partner organizations' current challenges but also potential changes within the organizations. Funds flow frameworks are unique to the organizations and partnerships that use them.

Healthcare organizations increasingly navigate a highly volatile, complex environment in which technological advancements and new healthcare delivery business models are the only constants. In their effort to out-perform in this environment, healthcare organizations need to be agile enough in order to become responsive to these increasingly changing conditions. To act with agility, healthcare o...

Virtual enterprise provides an attractive model for autonomous healthcare organizations to synergize and leverage the strengths of each others. We present in this paper the design concept and working principle of an interorganizational workflow process management system for virtual healthcare enterprises. We propose an extended WFMC process Meta model and a new concept of Partial View of Virtua...

The number of healthcare organizations that require targeted cost reduction due to state and federal budget shortfalls demands intense senior leader accountability. Leaders are discovering that traditional methods for curbing expenses have been largely exhausted, and they seek fresh approaches to meet their strategic imperatives. This study of more than 200 U.S. healthcare organizations, which ...

Virtual enterprise provides an attractive model for autonomous healthcare organizations to synergize and leverage the strengths of each others. We present in this paper the design concept and working principle of an inter-organizational workflow process management system for virtual healthcare enterprises. We propose an extended WFMC process Meta model and a new concept of Partial View of Virtu...

Analytics, moreover, can help predict an individual’s future healthcare needs, which can be valuable for both the payer and provider. Healthcare organizations must, therefore, begin to set up internal systems that gather disparate data in one place. This includes both structured and unstructured data; for example, EHR provides structured data of a patient’s history of health conditions and pres...

Healthcare organizations and systems around the world lag far behind banking, manufacturing, travel and other industries in their use of information management/information technology (IM/IT) to deliver high-quality products and services. Across Canada, healthcare organizations, as well as governments, understand that information and information technology are needed to deliver quality care and ...

O ur complex legislative process affects all healthcare organizations. "After the rubric of patient care, nothing defines us more than legislation," says James Peters of Lifespan, an integrated healthcare deliver)' network based in Providence, RI. He adds, "Laws determine our revenues, set our standards, specify our working conditions, and, in excruciating detail, tell us how to behave. Healthc...

U.S. healthcare organizations face unprecedented financial pressures, making it more difficult than ever to maintain the vital re-investment capital required to sustain high levels of care and improve operating efficiency. More than 34% of hospitals reported operating losses for the first half of 2009 and more than 70% of healthcare organizations have slowed down or canceled capital projects as...

Worldwide most health systems are facing a series of common challenges characterized by the increasing burden of chronic diseases and multimorbidity, and the accelerated pace of biomedical and technological innovations, on the other side. There is a growing recognition that many changes are needed at the macro, meso and micro management levels to tackle these challenges. Therefore, knowing if h...