Healthcare Strategic Planning, Fourth Edition

Health Management by John M. Harris (Author)

The US healthcare delivery system is undergoing unprecedented transformation. In response to rapid and profound changes in technology, competition, consumerism, and other areas, healthcare leaders must help their organizations develop and implement effective strategies to survive and thrive.

This fourth edition of Healthcare Strategic Planning, edited by John M. Harris (and previously authored by Alan M. Zuckerman), provides core insights into strategic planning practice and theory and shows how those insights can be applied to healthcare organizations. Examples from actual healthcare organizations add real-life detail and reinforcement. By following the book’s step-by-step guide to the stages of strategic planning—analyzing the environment, determining organizational direction, formulating strategies, and transitioning to implementation—readers will learn how to answer the question everyone in healthcare management is asking: Where are we going?

This new edition addresses strategic planning in the context of contemporary healthcare issues, particularly population health, value-based payment, and shifting provider–payer partnerships. It features the following new or enhanced material and more:

•Fresh strategies for incorporating strategic thinking into management routines
•Expanded coverage of environmental analysis, including tips on organizing the data collection process and identifying market trends
•New strategy formulation examples that illustrate the relationship among between crucial issues, goals, and key metrics
•A step-by-step process for creating an effective implementation plan and guidance for gaining board approval
•New case studies that illustrate how successful organizations handle the annual strategic planning process
•A new chapter on addressing business model shifts and technological and clinical advances at each step of the planning process

About the Author
John M. Harris, MBA, is a director at Veralon, a healthcare management consulting firm. Mr. Harris has more than 30 years of healthcare experience in consulting, management, and entrepreneurship. His work focuses on strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and the transition to value-based payment. He has served as a consultant to health systems and hospitals, accountable care organizations, clinically integrated networks, physician hospital organizations, and health plans. Mr. Harris is a faculty member and conducts seminars for the American College of Healthcare Executives on strategic planning and the future of healthcare. He is also a frequent speaker for the American Association of Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, and other organizations, as well as a guest expert on The Wharton School s Sirius XM radio station. He publishes frequently in hfm magazine and has contributed to Futurescan, the annual guide to healthcare strategy. Mr. Harris has a master of business administration degree in healthcare management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor s degree from Dartmouth College