After undergoing years of medical training, it can seem daunting to then complete another degree. However, more clinicians are pursuing MBA degrees as the healthcare landscape changes.

Increasingly, when organizations want to boost results, they turn not to generalized brainstorming sessions based on industry best practices, but to advanced analysis of their troves of employee data.

UnitedHealth Group's Optum is partnering with John Muir Health to help the system remain independent and become more competitive in California, according to CNBC.

The Biden Cancer Initiative suspended all operations July 11 after two years of working to accelerate cancer research.

A new survey from EY suggests the days of keeping quiet on major societal issues are numbered for CEOs.

Pinehurst, N.C.-based FirstHealth of the Carolinas launched an initiative to make its hospital better suited for dementia patients, according to The Pilot.

UPMC Pinnacle Lititz (Pa.) quietly dropped the Pinnacle from its name July 1, according to LancasterOnline.

Recessions are "sure as sunrise," McKinsey & Co. reminds business leaders in its May 2019 "McKinsey Quarterly," but by studying firms that have successfully navigated economic downturns, organizations can make themselves more resilient.   

Everyone wants to innovate. But how many hospitals are actually doing it?

The Wall Street Journal featured an innovation strategy used by Campbell Soup Co. to launch new versions of its Goldfish snacks targeted at an older age group.

Hospitals, like any organization, are prone to unannounced crises, whether they be cyberattacks, active shooter incidents, severe weather events or management scandals. Still, a recent report from the National Association of Corporate Directors found less than 20 percent of directors surveyed felt confident that management could handle unpredictable crises.

Leaders at Partners HealthCare are considering changing the Boston-based health system's name to better reflect its academic medical centers, according to the Boston Globe.

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.