Strategy

Every emergency department is built on a promise to be ready for whoever walks through the door. Yet when the patient is a child, national data suggests most are not. A 2024 study published in JAMA Network Open found that…

Strategic acquisition strengthens HRS’s virtual care platform with advanced EHR and workflow integrations, continuous glucose monitoring, and ambulatory expertise HOBOKEN, N.J., March 4, 2026 — Health Recovery Solutions (HRS), the nation’s leading remote patient monitoring and enterprise remote patient care…

As health systems and laboratories navigate another year of margin pressures and policy uncertainties, many leaders are reexamining long-standing operational assumptions and strategies. One area ripe for reinvention is medical couriers, responsible for moving specimens, supplies, pharmaceuticals, and other critical…

For much of the past century, academic medical centers have operated on a straightforward premise: build the best clinical programs, train the next generation of physicians and patients will come. But in 2025, that model is under pressure from every…

We’ve all had this experience: You’re teaching a training class, and it’s obvious that some of the participants really don’t want to be there. In one of my recent classes at a busy hospital, I noticed a unit supervisor in…

In 2022, St. Louis-based Ascension began an operational transformation aimed at strengthening long-term sustainability following the financial strain of the COVID-19 pandemic. The effort included strategic divestitures, market exits and the rollout of a more disciplined operating model, Amber Sims,…

Care at home programs are helping U.S. hospitals combat chronic capacity bottlenecks, escalating labor costs, and clinical workforce burnout Health systems’ traditional approaches to capital-intensive bed expansion or internal throughput optimizations have reached a point of diminishing returns. The modern…

Artificial intelligence is becoming a bigger part of healthcare. What started with administrative tasks like documentation, coding, workflow management is expanding quickly. Today, many AI tools can retrieve and summarize clinical guidelines and peer-reviewed research directly within a clinician’s daily…

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health is accelerating its outpatient strategy as it builds out a 25-center ASC network designed to shift volume out of hospitals and closer to patients. Leslie Barrett, BSN, RN, senior vice president of ambulatory surgery strategy and…

When transitions of care break down, patients feel it through repeated histories, fragmented communication, and preventable returns to the hospital. For patients with chronic illness, movement between acute and post-acute settings can become a costly, exhausting cycle that impacts outcomes,…