Strategy

Mid-summer is a transition point in healthcare. It’s when new residents arrive on the scene and newly graduated MHA students step into their first leadership roles. Across hospitals and health systems, a new wave of talent moves from classroom to…

When Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD, R-La., lost his Republican primary last month, Becker’s noted that a lame-duck Senate HELP Committee chairman with no reelection to protect was worth watching. He is now providing evidence of what that looks like in…

The healthcare industry has always pursued consolidation, along with projects to expand capacity, modernize infrastructure and meet rising patient demand. But in this moment of mounting financial pressure and industry headwinds, the judgment behind an organization’s growth strategy is more…

June 3, 2026 – Peoria, IL  and Clearwater, FL — hellocare.ai, a leading provider of AI-assisted virtual care and intelligent hospital room technology, today announced an expanded strategic partnership with OSF HealthCare to deploy the hellocare.ai platform across inpatient environments…

When Alejandro Quiroga, MD, describes the more than $1 billion acute care tower Children’s Mercy is building in Kansas City, Mo., he frames it less as an expansion than a necessity. The tower, planned for the system’s flagship Adele Hall…

Clinical workforce shortages affect every specialty in every geographic location in the U.S, but in rural-care settings, the problem is particularly acute. As a recent Commonwealth Fund report noted, 43 million people who live in rural areas face primary-care clinician…

As cancer screening continues to evolve, health systems are navigating a rapidly expanding toolkit of diagnostics from established stool-based tests to blood-based multi-cancer early detection (MCED) technologies. Deploying these tools effectively requires infrastructure, cross-specialty collaboration and a plan for what…

A Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions chairman with six months left, no reelection to protect and considerable authority is one worth watching. Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD, R-La., finished third in Louisiana’s May 17 Republican Senate primary, ending…

Health system CEOs and compliance leaders say expanding federal enforcement activity is pushing systems toward earlier cross-functional coordination, more proactive compliance monitoring and greater use of AI-driven risk analytics. Within the past two weeks, federal officials took actions involving medical…

Cardiovascular service lines are growing fast—and so are the data streams they are expected to manage. The remote monitoring landscape—once confined to pacemakers and ICDs—has diversified to include Holter monitors, MCTs, loop recorders, and FDA-approved wearables. Yet, this proliferation of…