Throughput and waste reduction are critical issues for operators everywhere. Access our repository of best practices to learn how organizations are ensuring operational excellence.

• Learn from global exemplars on best-in-class operating room efficiency tactics, in both the inpatient and ambulatory settings.
• Master the basics to ensure seamless discharge, particularly for vulnerable groups. 
• Explore how two organizations are using AI to streamline bed placement decisions and reduce costs in the process.

Margin management is not going away as a must-have health system competency. Dig into our research on cost control to learn where your cost reduction opportunities lie.

• Dig into a comprehensive model that illustrates the magnitude of margin challenges that providers face to prioritize opportunities to address the squeeze.
• Access our repository of 20 best-practice cost control tactics to create near-term savings and set the stage for long-term cost discipline.
• Focus on one of the more pernicious drivers of unnecessary costs — hospital readmissions.

Operations leaders oversee increasingly larger systems. Tactical best practices may provide targeted results, but broad organizational design and enterprise-wide policies are critical to system success. 

• Create the right system structure for service line management that breaks through traditional performance barriers.
• Get a blueprint for achieving a properly organized, system-wide set of care standards that delivers predictable, consistent care.
• Learn how three systems have transformed their service line structures to cooperate with each other and the enterprise more broadly.