As AI moves deeper into hospital operations, health system COOs and strategy leaders say their roles are shifting from gathering information and overseeing workflows to coaching teams, building governance and deciding where the technology belongs. Many are using AI to…
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As health systems look for ways to expand access without adding proportional labor and infrastructure, COOs and strategic leaders say the next year’s biggest partnership opportunities will center on workforce, post-acute care and technology. Several point to joint ventures that…
For years, the instinct in healthcare leadership was to equate bigger with better: more beds, more service lines, more volume, more capabilities built and owned in-house. Becker’s asked CEOs, CFOs, and clinical and supply chain leaders from hospitals, health systems…
Ric Ransom, CEO of Columbia, Mo.-based MU Health Care, believes that culture should be judged by how people act when senior leadership is not in the room. In a Sept. 29 LinkedIn post, Mr. Ransom said the word “culture” is…
When I previously led AI at a health system, doctors and coding and clinical documentation integrity (CDI) teams frequently disagreed. Physicians felt the record didn’t capture how sick their patients were. CDI and coding teams pointed out that they could…
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It takes a lot to slow Anthony Hilliard, MD. At least physically. Three years ago, Dr. Hilliard, president of Loma Linda (Calif.) University Health and CEO of Loma Linda University Health Hospitals, was in a skiing accident that “literally snapped…
As I prepare to retire as president and CEO of Lee Health, I’ve spent a great deal of time reflecting on what leadership means — and what responsibility a leader has when it is time to step away. I’ve come…
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) began treating patient readiness as a capacity issue after seeing how late cancellations could delay care and leave valuable OR time unfilled despite a significant surgical backlog. The challenge was finding a way to…
Sanford Health’s latest expansion is pushing the Sioux Falls, S.D.-based system into a new phase of growth: one that increasingly blends its deep rural footprint with a major urban presence. On Sept. 1, Sanford acquired North Memorial Health, a two-hospital…
As a football coach, Jimmy Johnson won two Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys and a national championship at the University of Miami, but when he gave a keynote interview Sept. 15 at Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle…