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Combatting Clinician & Physician Burnout: A Guide for Healthcare Leadership

Clinician and physician burnout has emerged as a critical issue in healthcare, posing significant challenges to both providers and organizations. The demands of the profession, coupled with administrative burdens and a rapidly changing healthcare...

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Re-Align Labor Costs to Improve Margins

It's no secret that labor costs and financial challenges are affecting the majority of hospitals today. Futura is uniquely positioned to help both...

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Strategic Cost Management: A Best Practice for Reducing Runaway Labor Costs

With numerous reports of declining operating margins in hospitals across the country, many institutions are struggling to maintain financial...

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How Hospitals Can Prevent Inflation-Driven Losses

Although we have passed the 2022 inflation spike, it's important to note that this does not necessarily indicate a return to pre-inflationary levels....

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Transforming Healthcare with RFID: Real-World Benefits from 3 Hospitals

RFID technology is becoming increasingly popular with organizations that want to increase efficiency and visibility relative to equipment, supplies,...

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HFMA Survey Forecasts Financial Decline for Healthcare Industry

The HFMA’s Third Quarter, 2022 Outlook Survey provides insight into the current state of the healthcare industry. The latest report demonstrates why...

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This Hospital Culture Change Sustainably Reduces Labor Costs

Before we kickoff the final post of our strategic cost management series, let’s take a quick detour. Imagine you are the winner of a DIY contest at...

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Hospitals: Benchmarking is Not a Cost Reduction Strategy

In healthcare, benchmark studies and productivity reports are the gold standard for leaders looking to make their facilities more efficient, provide...

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The Great Resignation's 'Brain Drain'. A Healthcare Crisis

There’s something to be said about an organization that’s stacked with long-term employees, especially in the healthcare sector. Healthcare workers...

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Four Ways to Cut Your Labor Costs, Not Your Staff

Median hospital operating margins were negative in the first quarter of 2022. Kaufman Hall called it a perfect storm of converging threats:...

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What Vendor-Agnostic Means to Healthcare IT

In the healthcare IT industry, choosing the right partner for your next hardware rollout is no easy feat. Not only do you want to make sure you’re...

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4 Steps for a Successful Healthcare IT Project Go-Live

When President Obama was in office, he promised to make quality, affordable health care a right. Healthcare.gov was the access point built for...

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Six Steps for Great Healthcare IT Vendor Relationships

Is your IT ‘partner’ acting like a one-night stand? Challenge them to commit to a strategic relationship and be ready to move on if they don’t.

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3 Tips to Increase the Uptime & Useful Life of Your Medical Carts

Medical carts have become indispensable extensions of healthcare technology. Any cart defect, damage, or malfunction that slows down the caregiving...

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