Essential operational components for high-performing healthcare enterprises

1. A Healthcare Vision for the Next-Level Healthcare Enterprise 2. Sustainable Change in Healthcare: Leadership for the Twenty-First Century 3. Governing the Future of Healthcare Systems 4. The Evolving Role of the Physician, Nurse, Medical Staff Services Professional, and Organized Medical Staff 5. Strategic Planning for the Future Healthcare Enterprise 6. Models and Competencies for Clinical Integration 7. Taking the Service Line to the Next Level in the Twenty-First Century 8. Health Information Management for the Twenty-First-Century Healthcare Enterprise 9. Managing Actuarial Risk 10. Best-Practice, Evidence-Based Management that Minimizes Costs and Optimizes Outcomes 11. Operational Building Blocks and Success Factors for Population Health 12. Creating a High-Reliability Organization for the Twenty-First Century 13. Building a Culture of Service Excellence for the Twenty-First Century 14. Legal Challenges for Clinically Integrated Networks 15. Intermountain Healthcare: An Evolving Integrated Delivery System

The future of US healthcare is uncertain, but the shift towards value-based care is a significant change. Reimbursement payment programs are already undergoing this transformation, and quality measures are increasingly tied to reimbursement payment programs. Healthcare organizations must transform their care and business models to become integrated delivery systems. This model involves hospitals and other entities working together to achieve common clinical and business goals. Healthcare leaders must shift from caring for the ill to preventing illness. Essential Operational Components for High-Performing Healthcare Enterprises proposes a framework of innovative strategies for this shift, including effective leadership, clinical staff roles, strategic planning, clinically integrated networks, health information management, population health, and actuarial risk and cost management.