Strategy

Healthcare leaders are solving the anesthesia shortage the wrong way—and it’s costing more than they realize. Across the country, hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers are increasingly relying on national anesthesia companies and traveling 1099 providers to maintain coverage. On paper,…

Establishing and sustaining a vibrant board governance program has become essential in healthcare organizations as they navigate the often complex and always changing factors facing the industry today. The value of governance, particularly in the non-profit sector where members are…

Two threads ran through some of this week’s top healthcare leadership headlines. Healthcare CEOs offered notably different takes on where mission ends and margin begins. Meanwhile, the political conversation around healthcare affordability sharpened. Read together, the week puts a single…

Emergency departments have become the default front door to the health system—but they were never designed to absorb the full weight of today’s demand. Health systems continue to respond in familiar ways: adding beds, expanding facilities, and pushing for incremental…

One in three patients in the U.S. is referred to a specialist every year, yet only about 35% of those patients are ever seen. Referrals arrive as unstructured faxes, sit in undifferentiated work queues, get routed to the wrong specialty…

Health systems are navigating a technology landscape that changes faster than most organizations can absorb it. But the challenge isn’t finding technology to invest in. It’s building the organizational discipline to define what intelligent care means, invest in the right…

As da Vinci surgery platforms evolve into data-rich, digital ecosystems, health systems are discovering that the real value isn’t just in the operating room — it’s in what the technology can teach. During a featured session at Becker’s 16th Annual…

Rural patients face a well-documented paradox in surgical care: they carry a higher burden of chronic disease and experience worse postoperative outcomes, yet are significantly less likely to receive da Vinci surgery procedures, even though those approaches are associated with…

Rural healthcare is at an inflection point. Hospitals are closing or scaling back essential services. Labor and delivery units are disappearing. Rural operating rooms sit idle not due to a lack of patients, but to a shortage of clinicians. At…

There is a moment from my training that has stayed with me for years, not because it was unusual, but because it revealed something fundamental about how systems fail. I was a medical student in Colombia, working in a public…