HealthIT Answers November 27, 2022
Make Us More Efficient & Profitable, but Don’t Disrupt Our Workforce
As widely reported and acutely felt, in 2022 health systems are broadly on track to post their worst financial results in decades. That fact is all the reminder we need that healthcare organizations are businesses with exposure to macro-economic headwinds and tailwinds, like any other. But unlike other sectors, healthcare is part of the critical infrastructure that holds up our society, our economy, our families, and ourselves.
In the business of improving health outcomes and saving lives, questions about spending can be existential. Hospitals have a moral imperative to provide the care their communities rely on, making labor shortages and a looming recession much more than simply business challenges....