Healthcare is at an inflection point and leaders are reflecting on a simple question as they plan for the next few years: is the future of this industry bright or dark? The answer is neither simple nor unanimous. But it…
Leadership & Management
Defining return on investment for healthcare technology has never been more consequential — or more contested. As health systems face mounting financial pressure, workforce strain and the rapid proliferation of AI-driven tools, the question of what truly constitutes a return…
The CEO role is widely seen as one of the most demanding positions in business, often marked by isolation and constant pressure. For women, those challenges can be more pronounced due to underrepresentation, heightened scrutiny and narrower room for missteps, according…
Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health is taking a multipronged approach to tackling workforce shortages: investing in early education pipelines, raising minimum wages and leaning into technology to stretch its existing staff further. Mary Martin, COO of Duke University Hospital, said the…
Navigating uncertainty has become a defining feature of healthcare leadership today. But Andre Dick, MD, is treating it as a strategic advantage. At Seattle Children’s, where he serves as senior vice president and surgeon-in-chief, that mindset is shaping how the…
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HHS and CMS have launched a healthcare advisory committee to help strengthen and modernize U.S. healthcare. The committee, which comprises 18 members, will advise both HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, on how to…
Barbara Donaho, BSN, who served as president and CEO of St. Anthony’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., from 1991 to 1994, died March 13. She was 92. After retirement, she was chair of the advisory committee for Kent, Ohio-based Kent…
Perioperative services remain one of hospitals’ most critical revenue engines, yet many organizations still manage OR staffing through fragmented data and manual workarounds. At Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), that challenge spanned 53 operating rooms, where scheduling processes…
The White House has delayed nominating a new CDC director, allowing Jay Bhattacharya, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health, to continue leading the agency past the March 26 deadline, The Washington Post reported March 25. Dr. Bhattacharya has…
Strong leaders do not avoid difficult conversations — they handle them in ways that improve outcomes, according to a March 16 McKinsey article. How leaders communicate is increasingly tied to organizational performance. Courage, the authors argue, means addressing reality directly,…