With the 2023 NBA Playoffs looming, the last place you’d expect to see Magic Johnson and Larry Bird would be at a healthcare conference. Yet both NBA legends, along with entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, were featured keynote speakers for the Becker’s Hospital Review 13th Annual Meeting in Chicago from April 3rd-6th. Origami Risk’s Anooja Cannon, Senior Healthcare Market Strategy Lead, and Katherine Mahlke, Healthcare Sales Associate, heard from these industry greats and spoke with physicians, frontline staff, and healthcare executives to learn about their most pressing challenges. 

It's no secret: Health systems face immense and unprecedented challenges. These include workforce shortages, supply chain issues, revenue risks and economic headwinds.

Introduction Administrative burden is a major cause of clinician burnout, which in turn can lead to low employee satisfaction and have a negative impact on patient safety.

Wenatchee, Wash.-based Confluence Health has eliminated its chief operating officer amid restructuring efforts and financial pressures, the health system confirmed to Becker's May 16.

Some health systems are using a larger-than-life approach to staffing, buying up billboards as a means of recruitment. Some nurses are employing billboards to hold their health systems accountable when it comes to staffing. 

Across countless industries, there has been a steadily growing trend toward adoption of cloud computing. As cloud computing enters its 18th year1, massive workloads have been migrated to the cloud; cloud laws, standards and best practices have been enacted, and computing, storage, network and security technologies have been invented just for the cloud.

Hospital-at-home programs can help ease many pressures on the healthcare industry, such as staffing and inpatient overcrowding. But "too many questions remain unanswered" for CMS to approve them permanently, research professionals argue in a recent article. 

The hospital emergency department (ED) is at a crossroads in modern medicine. It is the front line of care for many patients, yet the ED is costly to operate and is not always fully equipped to help patients during the critical post-discharge period. Still, in the face of these challenges, some hospitals are reducing costs while simultaneously improving outcomes after an emergency care visit.

The Transform Summit features industry leaders sharing how to increase ROI through AI as budgets tighten, patient volumes rise, and staffing shortages intensify.

For far too long, laboratories have been regarded as cost centers despite their key role in driving health outcomes and hospital revenues. Now finally that outlook is starting to change for the better.

Historically, hospitals and health systems have tended to view patient care through their own lens. Today, leading organizations recognize that healthcare works better when it actively incorporates patient perspectives. 

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health is restructuring leadership on the West Coast as it combines Saint Agnes Medical Center in California and Saint Alphonsus Health System in Idaho and Oregon into one regional ministry, according to a statement shared with Becker's May 4. 

Healthcare organizations face increasingly complex operational challenges as they navigate ever-evolving internal and external controls while also striving to ensure quality patient care.

Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare officially changed its name to Sentara Health on May 4.

Healthcare organizations today are faced with multiple competing financial and operational challenges that make it difficult to strategically plan long-term.

Health systems, medical groups, and other healthcare entities frequently receive administrative and management services from management services organizations (MSOs) via a management services agreement (MSA).

Health systems are continuing to face extreme challenges. These include staffing shortages, operational complexities and margin pressures. In this environment, health systems often look to technology solutions to automate and improve efficiency. However, at times technology can add to an organization's challenges since attempting to deal with disparate point solutions can create more work and stress for burned-out staff, without resolving margin pressures.

Adventist Health Simi Valley, a leading medical institution in Southern California, is proud to announce the groundbreaking integration of Intuitive Hub, an innovative video and virtual collaboration technology, to its da Vinci surgery program.

While da Vinci-assisted surgery has gained traction within many healthcare systems, others are reluctant to embrace da Vinci-assisted surgery due to concerns about costs, implementation and value.

Although many health systems are exploring da Vinci-assisted surgery, the cost and complexity can be intimidating.