Strategic Growth Blog by Stratasan

The Promise (and Challenge) of Price Transparency Data

New Claims Data Visualization Platform Delivers Focused Market Intelligence

Changing Demographics Need Your Attention

4 Reasons to Prioritize Strategic Planning Now (And Not In The New Year)

Care-Setting Shifts Indicate It’s Time to Determine “What Next?”

Now What: Payers' Transparency in Coverage Deadline Has Passed

Marking the Trends in Physician Recruitment and Relations

State Data: Three Things You Need to Know

Solving for Referral Leakage and Outmigration

Answers to Your Top Community Health Needs Assessment Questions

Uncovering the Top Concerns of Healthcare Decision Makers

Physician Relations: YOU are the Market Expert

[Infographic] Top 3 Reasons People Don’t Visit the Doctor

Stratasan's Most Popular Blogs of 2021

How Hospital Associations Can Help Members With CHNAs

Widen Your Outpatient Planning Opportunities

The No Surprises Act: Its Impact on Payer and Provider Negotiations

Your Budget Has Been Slashed! Now What?

Make the Most of SHSMD 2021: 5 Tips to Maximize Your Time

3 Signs It’s Time to Revisit Your Service Area Definition

Analyzing COVID’s Impact on Healthcare Data Coding

Your Market Demographics are Changing: Are You Ready?

Community Health Needs Assessment - Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Responding to Shifts in the Healthcare Outpatient Market

Will Payers Follow Medicare’s Lead?

Reversing Patient Outmigration and Physician Referral Leakage

All-Payer Claims 837 Data and Longitudinal Analysis

Looking Back on 10 Years of Growth

The Value of Speedy Insights

Healthcare Data Aggregation and Analytics: Insights from the Experts

Using Reimbursement Data When Entering New Markets

Star Platform Updates that Deliver Clarity, Confidence, and Support

[Part 3] Looking Ahead: Successful Strategic Planning After COVID-19

[Part 2] Looking Ahead: Successful Strategic Planning After COVID-19

[Part 1] Looking Ahead: Successful Strategic Planning After COVID-19

3 Reasons Hospitals Need Their State Associations (and Vice Versa!)

Tips and Tricks for How to Maintain Your Physician Database

Quiz: How Strong is Your Strategic Planning Process?

CMS Hospital Price Transparency: Everything You Need to Know

[Infographic] The Health of America

Stratasan's Most Popular Blogs of 2020

Delays in State Data Reporting Due to COVID-19

Founder’s Post: Stratasan's 2020 Year-End Reflections

4 Ways to Identify Service Line Opportunities

3 Essential Questions to Ask of Your APCD Provider

How to Successfully Conduct a Virtual CHNA

What Drives Market Share? Distance Matters!

The Many Ways Hospital Associations Provide Value

Oncology Transition Study

[Infographic] Making Meetings Better

Make the Most of a Virtual Conference Experience

[Infographic] What is Fair Market Reimbursement?

Hospital Market Share: ZIP Code or County?

Demographic Data: From Commodity to Strategic Planning Asset

[Download] 6 Ways to Tell a Better Story with Your Data

Pro Tips for Presenting Market Data Visualization to Any Audience

6 Considerations for New Urgent and Primary Care Clinics

Healthcare Analysts are in Short Supply: How to Overcome the Challenge

Following the Numbers: COVID Trends by Age, Gender, and Care Setting

Innovative Solutions to the Healthcare Revenue Crisis

[Infographic] The Crazy Statistics of Fireworks and the 4th of July

Automate Your Busy Work and Make Time for Strategic Thinking

Following the Numbers: A Data-Based Look at Virtual Care

Founder's Perspective: Celebrating Our 9th Anniversary

Data Transparency in Reimbursement Discussions

Top 5 Community Health Concerns

The Value of Having Confidence in Your Data

Introducing StrataCares: COVID-19

Planning for the Future of Telehealth

3 Steps to Successful Payer Negotiations

💛 We’re Here for You!

How a Virus Like COVID-19 Becomes a Code

Tips for Maintaining Sanity While Working from Home

Top Methodologies for Determining Physician Need

Show Me the Money: The Finances of Strategic Planning

Top Ten Diseases Urgent Care Centers are Treating

The Value of a Data Aggregation Tool and Partner

The Art (and Science) of Defining a Service Area

Founder's Perspective: Transitions Are Hard

Leverage Your SWOT for Actionable Market Share Metrics

Stratasan's Most Popular Blogs of 2019

Founder’s Perspective: Builder of People

4 Steps to Cross-Department Collaboration

5 Ways to Increase Organizational Alignment: It Starts with Data

Founder's Perspective: Cultivating a Culture of Partnership

All Patients are Customers, But Not All Customers are Patients

Encouraging Diversity in Tech for Future Generations

Know Your Customer Like Never Before, Part 6: The Remaining Potpourri of Tapestry LifeModes

5 Key Considerations for Hospital Service Area Growth

How Healthcare Marketing and Planning Teams Can Prove Their Value

Know Your Customer Like Never Before, Part 5: Diversity in the City

[Infographic] Raising Breast Cancer Awareness

Know Your Customer Like Never Before, Part 4: Life in the City

3 Steps to Patient Connection through Human-to-Human Marketing

Leveraging Continuum of Care Tracking for Value-Based Care

Nashville Trivia Quiz: SHSMD 2019

SHSMD 2019 BINGO

Know Your Customer Like Never Before, Part 3: Tapestry Segmentation and Wealthy Urban and Suburban Populations

[Infographic] The Impact of FSERs on Traditional Hospital ERs

Know Your Customer Like Never Before, Part 2: Targeting Older (40+) Rural Populations

Make Your Presentations POP

Know Your Customer Like Never Before: Stratasan and Tapestry Segmentation

Big Data or The Right Data? Why Hospitals and Healthcare Systems Should Focus on Data Relevant for Strategic Growth

How To Survive and Thrive in an Age of Mergers and Acquisitions

5 Keys to Successful Expansion

Hospital, Meet Your Community. Community, Meet Your Hospital.

Why a Data Addiction Could Be Good for Hospital Performance

Tackle the Same Workload as a Large System, but with Fewer Resources

How Developers Can Empower Analysts to Access and Analyze Data

Gain the Upper Hand in Competitive Pricing and Payer Negotiations

[Infographic] The Reality of ER Wait Times

The Annual Strategic Plan is Dead

How to Make the Right Data-Driven Decisions

How to Create a Physician-Focused Growth Strategy

6 Pitfalls to Avoid When Choosing a Healthcare Analytics Partner

Understand Your Share of Wallet with APCD

Fail Fast, Learn Together, and Find Solutions

4 Ways to Get Things Done Across Departments

Pairing the Right Questions with the Right Data

Quiz: Uncover Tools to Support Your Growth Opportunities

Set Goals (Not Resolutions) and Achieve More this Year

The Newfound Value of the Community Asset Inventory

4 Ways to Compete in Today’s Hospital Market

Stratasan's Most Popular Blogs of 2018

Healthcare Digital Marketing: Part 2

Founder's Perspective: Applying the Principles of Good Strategy to Our Annual Planning

[Infographic] The Startling Effects of the Opioid Epidemic

Does Your Organization Really Value Physician Relations? A SHSMD 2018 Session Recap

SHSMD 2018 Session Summary: An Agile Strategic Planning Process Inviting Diverse Team Participation, Coalition Building, and Open Collaboration

Data-Driven Marketing: A SHSMD 2018 Recap

Pop Culture Trivia Quiz: SHSMD 2018

Top 7 Seattle Destinations to Explore While at SHSMD 2018

6 Steps to Conducting an Effective Physician Needs Analysis

Intern Insights: An Inspired Season of Life Lessons, Coding Tips, and Strategic Analysis

3 Steps to Healthcare Digital Marketing

How to Rock Your Next Strategy Meeting

How to Create Healthcare Marketing Plans Based on Real-Time Intelligence

The Top 3 Mistakes Healthcare Analysts Make

Bad Maps, Bad Maps, What’cha Gonna Do?

How to Thrive as an Independent Hospital in Challenging Healthcare Times

The Inside Story on State and All-Payer Claims Data

Environmental Assessment Checklist

Best Practices in Physician Relations

A Guide to Untangling the Complexities of State and CMS Databases

Elevate Your Physician Referral Strategy

Best Practices in Physician Relations Sales Planning, ROI Measurement, and Results Tracking

Seeding our Future: Stratasan’s Internship Program

CMS to Make Medicare Advantage Data Available

Takeaways from the Innov8rs Conference, March 2018

True or False: Physician Referrals Are Affected by Distance

Founder's Perspective: Innovation through Collaboration with Client Partners

Foster Physician Alignment and Uncover Opportunities for Growth

7 Steps to a Sustainable, High-Impact Patient Experience Model

Stratasan's Demographic Data: [The Many Reasons] Why We Use Esri

Helping Hospitals Grow Using Data

[Infographic] Spring Forward and Your Health Could Suffer

A Roadmap to Switching Analytics Partners

5 Tips for Better Brainstorming

A Template for Strategic Growth Planning

[VIDEO] Launch Pathway: Your Visual Intelligence Platform

Founder's Perspective: 3 Ways Our Company Culture Ensures “We’ll Figure It Out”

Recognize the Impact of Your Growth Strategies in Real Time

Fostering Innovation: Creating a Workplace Culture Open to Change

12 Productivity Tips for Busy Healthcare Professionals

Top 5 Most Popular Strategic Growth Blog Posts of 2017

Founder's Perspective: 2017 Reflections

Quiz: How Strong is your Data QA Process?

Focusing on the Job to be Done

4 Health Systems with Exceptional Marketing and Social Media

True or False: Patients Go to The Hospital Closest to Them

Mapping Software: Find the Right Fit for Your Team

3 Things Healthcare Strategic Planners Need to STOP Doing, ASAP!

Best Practices: Measuring Physician Relations Success

7 Marketing Tactics Healthcare Providers Need to Consider in 2018

SHSMD 2017 Session Summary: Successful Implementation of your Ambulatory Strategic Plan

The Best Exhibit Booths at SHSMD 2017

Karaoke at SHSMD 2017: Song Recommendations and Advice for Killing It On Stage

Five Surprising Lessons from SHSMD 2017, Day One

Top 5 Nightlife Destinations at SHSMD 2017 Orlando

SHSMD 2017 Session Summary: Facilitation Bootcamp for Healthcare Strategists

Make the Most of SHSMD 2017: 5 Tips to Maximize Your Time

Founder's Perspective: Attending SHSMD Connections

How to Achieve Maximum Patient Retention

Avoid the Consequences of a CHNA Failure

Intern Insights: Ellie Wood and Abbey Miles

Growth Planning: Track Progress and Measure Success

Healthcare Analysts are in Short Supply

Live Facilitation of Strategy Meetings

Taking The Guesswork Out of Practice Site Selection

Storyboards: Drawing Inspiration from Pinterest

A Straightforward Approach to Avoiding Patient Loss

Overcoming Consolidation Challenges for Healthcare Marketing and Strategic Planning

Success Story: Switching to an Outside Partner When Your In-House Multi-State Data Process is Failing You

Founder's Perspective: Scaling Culture

Why Physician Relations is all about Managing Leakage and Keepage

Founder's Perspective: New Product, New Office, New Outlook

Developing Our New Software: Why We Love React, Redux, and Django

Launch Pathway vs. Tableau

Your Market Share is Increasing - So What?

Leading Change in Healthcare