Due to the uncertainty of Medicare for All, the shift to EHRs and employment in health systems rather then owning a private practice, physicians have started to diversify their backgrounds with MBAs, according to Bloomberg.

As the U.S. healthcare industry rapidly evolves, transformative health systems have begun to apply the principles of design thinking to better meet changing consumer and community demands.

The American Medical Association has doubled down its efforts to create customized solutions designed specifically for health systems and large medical groups.

In 2012, Ron Vianu grew intellectually curious about something. He was working at a fast-growing referral management platform in New York at the time and began to uncover what he describes as a major disconnect between payers and providers over radiology.

Leadership teams should embrace silence in meetings as a way to prevent groupthink and provide space for innovative ideas to arise, educators with the University of North Carolina Charlotte wrote for Harvard Business Review.

Employee training programs are often a large investment for companies, including hospitals and health systems. But often there is no measure of how these programs affect behavior change, Laszlo Bock, CEO of training startup Humu, wrote for Harvard Business Review.

Hospitals and health systems can combat physician and staff burnout by endorsing the Charter on Physician Well-Being, which lists eight recommendations to improve physician well-being, according to a study published in JAMA Network and cited by an American Medical Association post.

Over the past decade, health systems have invested significant resources in forming clinically integrated networks, which are legal partnerships with physicians that permit the collective facilitation of coordinated care and single signature value-based contracts. However, many CINs are struggling to achieve optimal financial performance and an adequate return on these investments as they fail to generate shared savings for both physicians and health systems.

The Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation, a nonprofit agency aimed at improving childhood health and wellness, is changing its name, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Northside Hospital Forsyth in Cumming, Ga., will soon have an eight-story hotel and conference center, as well as a multifamily housing development, designed to provide patient families a place to stay and lure more millennial workers to the area, according to Forsyth County News.

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital's chief executive has a vision for downtown Tampa to attract more physicians and researchers to the area, according to a report from the Tampa Bay Times.

Tenet Healthcare plans to move its headquarters from Dallas to Farmers Branch, Texas, as part of a cost-cutting move, according to the Dallas Morning News.

In Arizona, residents are concerned about healthcare as the 2020 election approaches, an issue that may sway many independent and suburban voters to vote for candidates based on healthcare over party affiliation, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Through its Centers of Excellence program, Walmart partners with health systems that have demonstrated appropriate, high-quality care and outcomes for defined episodes of care.

Hospital and health system leaders may have a difficult time defining Optum — the fastest-growing unit of the largest health insurer in the country — as a competitor or a collaborator.

Peter Doerner, NAPA's Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer writes, "It’s a challenging time to be running a health system or Ambulatory Surgery Center. With the healthcare industry caught in a legislative standstill, hospital and ASC executives must now juggle their current high-cost structures with shifts in consumer behavior, case volume and the payer mix. Now more than ever, administrators need a true partner in their anesthesia department. Strong onsite anesthesia leadership can have a significant impact on a hospital’s culture and financial performance." Editor's note: this article was originally posted on NAPA's website Please click here to continue

Dr. Steven Herling, Physician at North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA), Director of Perioperative Medicine at Northwell Health in Manhasset, NY, writes, "It’s been said that change is good—and hard. In considering how standardizing presurgical testing can maximize the satisfaction of hospitals, surgeons, and patients, there are solid medical and fiscal benefits to be reaped by making changes to the old protocol.”

Decision-making processes are broken: It takes too long to arrive at a solution, and even after spending so much time deliberating, the outcome may still be less than successful. According to a recent McKinsey survey, this frustrating process wastes 530,000 days' worth of managers' time — the equivalent of $250 million — at a typical Fortune 500 company.

Arlington-based Texas Health Resources is replacing its current zone-based operations model with a channel strategy.

Some of the most compelling speakers at the 16th Annual World Health Care Congress this week in Washington, D.C., were those who see healthcare from the outside looking in, extending an opportunity for hospitals, health systems and legacy players in the industry to take a good hard look in the mirror.