73% of health care chief financial officers (CFOs) and finance leaders say they’re expected to be regularly involved in enterprise decisions. The challenge: only 49% feel well equipped to contribute, according to a recent survey, The Healthcare CFO Readiness Gap In Enterprise Decision-Making.

CFO responsibility for enterprise decisions varied from 64% involved in technology strategy decisions to 75% involved in enterprise merger and acquisition strategy and 81% involved in compliance strategy. The biggest gaps in readiness are in consumer affordability and experience and in compliance.

The question is how to get CFOs up to speed. The authors recommend a change in structure and function at the executive level – embedding, enabling, and empowering finance more intentionally across the organization.

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