Strategy

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…

Breast cancer programs rarely struggle because testing is unavailable. They struggle because testing is not consistently embedded into clinical pathways with the same rigor as imaging, pathology sign‑out, surgery scheduling, or treatment planning. For health systems, especially those operating across…

Health systems have spent years building care navigation programs, contact centers and disease-specific patient journeys — and most leaders know these efforts haven’t added up to a unified experience. The missing piece, increasingly, is orchestration: connecting fragmented data, workflows and…

A case study in aligning revenue capture with the patient journey Continuous remote monitoring of cardiac implantable electronic devices has become a standard for cardiac care. Yet, in many cardiac device clinics, billing workflows are still built on legacy assumptions:…

The healthcare workforce crisis is not new, but its root causes may be less understood than its symptoms. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting, a group of health system and academic leaders gathered for an executive roundtable hosted by ECG Management…

Cardiovascular service line leaders are under pressure to do more with less — expand access, reduce diagnostic delays, and improve outcomes while navigating tight budgets and operational complexity. Few people understand this challenge as well as Amanda Maples. After starting…

Physician well-being is a critical but often misunderstood metric for hospitals and health systems. To improve well-being, healthcare organizations need an evidence-based roadmap and need the right survey tools to measure burnout. This was a key theme at an executive…

Health systems are navigating a continued push toward value-based payment models, with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) accelerating timelines and signaling a broader expansion of mandatory bundles faster than many executives anticipated. While not all models are…

Health care industry boards are revisiting the benefits of a strict competency-based approach to their composition. This, given that multiple new regulatory and environmental challenges to the health care system are placing a premium on strategic experience and perspectives at…