Healthcare leaders have moved past the question of whether AI, pharmacy intelligence and operational analytics can create value. The harder question now is how to embed these tools into daily operations in ways that improve outcomes, reduce friction and scale across the enterprise.
This week’s resources offer a look inside that work, with leaders from nine health systems sharing where they’re seeing progress, where challenges remain and what it takes to turn promising technology into measurable results.
Below are five resources from Becker’s Healthcare featuring perspectives from leaders at Ochsner Health, Yale New Haven Health System, Memorial Hermann, Cincinnati Children’s, OhioHealth, MetroHealth, St. Luke’s Health System, University of Kansas Health System and University of Iowa Health Care.
1. How Ochsner, Yale New Haven, MetroHealth and St. Luke’s are turning a cost center into a growth engine
Most health systems still treat pharmacy as a line-item expense to control. In this webinar, chief pharmacy officers from Ochsner Health, Yale New Haven Health System, MetroHealth and St. Luke’s Health System take a different approach by leveraging pharmacy intelligence, AI-enabled workflows and data-driven decision-making.They walk through the pressures that forced a rethink, what catalyzed change at their organizations and what they’re seeing across the patient medication journey.
Essential viewing for chief pharmacy officers, CFOs and operations executives rethinking pharmacy’s role on the P&L.
2. When nurses help build the AI, adoption follows: Lessons from Cincinnati Children’s, Memorial Hermann and OhioHealth
Healthcare organizations face relentless workforce pressure, and nursing leaders are asking how to implement AI so front-line nurses will actually use it. In this webinar, nursing leaders from Cincinnati Children’s, Memorial Hermann and OhioHealth share how they co-designed an AI-powered patient-facing voice assistant with nurses from the ground up. They detail what worked, what didn’t and how skeptics became advocates — including where the technology saved nurses time and how it reached patients often missed in education on diabetes or COPD.
Recommended for CNOs, nursing operations leaders and clinical innovation executives evaluating AI tools that depend on front-line adoption.
3. How KU Health and UI Health Care are optimizing OR operations
Surgical efficiency is within reach, but it requires more than an EHR. In this on-demand session, leaders from The University of Kansas Health System and University of Iowa Health Care, at different points in their digital transformation journeys, share what it takes to move from high-utilization ORs to genuinely optimized ones.
KU Health details how it embedded analytics into daily workflows and policies, while UI Health Care shares how early implementation helped eliminate paper workflows, unlock real-time staffing visibility and achieve a 4x reduction in process steps.
Worth watching for perioperative leaders, COOs and CMIOs looking to uncover hidden capacity in the OR.
4. How system leaders are managing physician compensation at scale
Physician compensation decisions are becoming harder to manage as organizations grow, integrate practices and compete for scarce clinician talent. This report, with insights from leaders responsible for physician compensation across large provider organizations, explores how systems are bringing greater consistency, transparency and trust to pay decisions while standing up the governance structures and committees required to scale.
Particularly relevant for CMOs, physician enterprise leaders and operations executives navigating compensation strategy under workforce pressure.
5. From data to decisions: Rethinking virtual care performance
Hospitals generate vast amounts of clinical and operational data each year, yet only a small portion is actively used to guide care delivery and virtual care programs often rely on disconnected workflows that limit visibility and constrain scalability.
This whitepaper explores how virtual care platforms are evolving into orchestration layers that integrate EHR, imaging and operational data directly into the consult workflow, enabling leaders to improve how work is distributed and how decisions get made.
A valuable read for virtual care leaders, COOs and operations executives looking to make their virtual programs scale.
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