Healthcare Transformation

Frontline community engagement brings provider organizations and members together to better manage chronic conditions.

It’s been a slow start to the year for healthcare mergers, but analysts project more transactions in the coming months. Critics worry about the prospect of mega-deals.

Researchers found patients who were Black or Hispanic were far more likely than white patients to see care postponed for more than four weeks. The delays raise the risk for poor outcomes.

AI is the solution for assisting hospitals with managing operating room backlogs and overall efficiencies. Some use predictive analytics to optimize scheduling to slash patient wait times.

Patients have higher expectations, and hospital executives say the industry must focus more on the customer experience. It was a recurring theme at the American Hospital Association Leadership Summit this week.

The e-commerce behemoth is buying the primary care provider, saying the health industry needs reinvention. Analysts say Amazon could succeed.

Eric Martin, vice president of patient services and chief nursing officer at Norton Children’s Hospital, talked about taking care of team members at the American Hospital Association Leadership Summit.

They offered their perspectives on succeeding as leaders, building great teams and the importance of empathy.

Don’t assume even the strongest staff members are OK. Leaders talked about the need for empathy and how they are tending to the well-being of their teams.

Amid daunting challenges, three health system leaders stress the importance of taking care of their teams and making everyone feel valued.

The assistant U.S. secretary of health called on health systems to tackle climate change, saying it’ll improve health outcomes and can help hospitals lower their own costs.

Stevenson, the author of “Just Mercy” and inspiration of the film, has spent his adult life representing the disadvantaged in the criminal legal system. He urged hospital leaders to fight to end disparities in healthcare.

The president of the hospital association said the group will press for federal aid and the continuation of waivers implemented during the pandemic.

The electronic health records giant says it will join TEFCA, a new national health information exchange framework. With records and data more easily available, patients and providers will see the benefits, Doyle says.

The organization named Heather O’Sullivan as the system’s first president of home-based care. A key leader says “the future of healthcare is in the home.”

The number of transactions in the second quarter was the lowest in years, Kaufman Hall reports. But the small number of deals involved some big players.

Health equities cost Americans $320 billion, and could surge to $1 trillion by 2040. Deloitte’s Andy Davis talks about ways healthcare leaders can make progress in addressing disparities.

In an interview with Chief Healthcare Executive, Hu discusses the challenges for hospitals and post-acute providers, the potential of data and how health systems need to collaborate.

Deepa Kumaraiah spoke with Chief Healthcare Executive about using data to provide better care, new approaches from the COVID-19 pandemic, and caring for staff.

The organizations make a case for combining physical and behavioral health, but they say policymakers and insurers must step up to make it a reality.

The FDA has given authorization, with some limitations. The American Medical Association says only doctors should be prescribing the drug used to treat COVID-19 patients.

Advocates for mobile clinics say they can reach patients in underserved communities and help keep some from requiring costly hospital stays.

The two organizations announced a partnership to develop cutting-edge innovations that can improve healthcare around the globe.

Some members of minority groups had increases in life expectancy, but wide differences are seen among Americans. The COVID-19 pandemic may have erased those gains.

More than 60 hospitals and health groups said they would strive to reach the Biden administration’s target of reducing emissions by 50% by 2030.