Strategy

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is investing heavily in modernizing rural healthcare through its Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), a $50 billion initiative established under President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts legislation. The program, announced in 2025,…

Across many health systems, anesthesia is still approached primarily as a staffing problem. It is not. It is an enterprise operating model problem. When anesthesia is treated as a narrow labor issue rather than a strategic platform, the consequences extend…

Hospital and health system leaders today face a complex set of pressures: declining reimbursement, rising operating costs, physician burnout, recruitment challenges, and growing patient expectations for availability and personalization. As organizations evaluate sustainable care delivery strategies, concierge membership models are…

Among the many factors that will distinguish health systems in the coming years, deciding where and when to allocate resources ranks high on the list. With experience across the industry and consulting, Sarah Matlin brings a disciplined approach to this…

Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health is taking a multipronged approach to tackling workforce shortages: investing in early education pipelines, raising minimum wages and leaning into technology to stretch its existing staff further. Mary Martin, COO of Duke University Hospital, said the…

Healthcare is at an inflection point. Economic pressures are mounting, reimbursement is compressing, and AI is rapidly reshaping what’s possible — both clinically and operationally. For executives across the country, the question is no longer whether transformation is coming, but…

AI is collapsing the cost of building, operating, and scaling software companies. In healthcare IT, that means the next major vendor may not be a 10,000-employee incumbent, but an ultra-lean AI-powered company that solves one mission-critical problem better, faster, and…

The American healthcare system has never lacked for challenges, but the current moment feels different in both scale and urgency. Staffing shortages have moved from chronic annoyance to structural crisis. Reimbursement models are straining under the weight of an aging…

Clearwater, Florida, March 25, 2026 – hellocare.ai, a leading AI-assisted care delivery and intelligent hospital room platform, today announced the appointment of Terry D. Shaw, CEO Emeritus of AdventHealth, to its Board of Directors. Shaw brings more than four decades…

Valley Children’s Healthcare has spent the last decade rethinking its long-term growth and sustainability strategy across California’s Central Valley as pediatric unit closures accelerate nationwide and reimbursement pressures intensify. The system is building a more distributed model of care that…