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Advancing Quality: Trust, Safety, and Accountability in Health Care

2026/10/13

How health care organizations can rebuild trust and advance quality by strengthening safety, patient experience, accountability, and collaboration.

Changes in Federal Medicaid Eligibility Will Affect Millions of Americans

2026/08/25

How health care leaders can help prevent Medicaid coverage losses with coordinated communication, community partnerships, and practical support.

How Health Policy Shapes Clinical Innovation

2026/08/03

Why should physicians engage in health policy, and how can payment rules quietly steer care, innovation, and the spread of new models?

Transparency as an Ethical Promise: HealthLocator, Trust, and Patient-Centered Quality

2026/07/29

How HealthLocator can help patients find high-quality care while building trust, improving transparency, and supporting organizations in a more patient-centered quality ecosystem.

Evaluating Value-Based Care: A Look Inside Risant Health’s Platform Strategy

2026/07/27

Can a scalable, technology-enabled platform make value-based care work across fragmented health care systems? Early results from Risant Health suggests it can.

Healing the Gun Violence Epidemic through Health System Action

2026/07/16

How can health system leaders move beyond treating gun violence as an injury event to address it as a preventable public health crisis?

Advancing Health Equity in a Time of Retrenchment: On Equity, Value, and the Work Ahead

2026/06/30

How can health care organizations advance health equity when political, legal, and cultural forces are making the work more difficult?

Modern Presidential Leadership and Health Care’s Defining Moments

2026/06/22

How the actions of Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden through personal experience, leadership, and legislature reveal their greatest health care victories while president.

How CMMI’s Mission Remains the Same Despite Changes in Leadership

2026/06/18

Two Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation directors, past and present, compare notes on how the center maintains its mission of making care more affordable and accountable through administration changes.

Rethinking Leadership for Academic Medical Centers: Navigating the Challenges

2026/06/03

What’s driving the shift from an individual leader for academic medical centers to a team-based operational leader and how to proceed to that transformation.

Leading Transformation in Rural Health: How Mayo Clinic Health System Is Redefining Care, Culture, and the Use of AI

2026/05/08

How Mayo Clinic Health System is transforming care for largely rural communities while reshaping culture, workforce, and AI-enabled practice across a widely dispersed network.

Leading Academic Medical Centers Through Crisis and Renewal: Emory’s Turnaround and New Vision for Greatness

2026/04/24

How an academic medical center emerged from financial deficits, workforce turnover, and low morale to become a high-performing, trusted system that defines what “great” will mean for academic medical centers in the decades ahead.

High-Reliability Organizing: Refreshing a Proven Framework for Modern Health Care Challenges

2026/04/21

How can health care leaders refresh the high-reliability organization (HRO) concept to address today’s workforce shortages, AI integration, and complex care delivery demands?

How Physician Coaches Can Be Beneficial

2026/03/23

How a physician coach can create growth through vulnerability and help view clinical practice in an entirely new way.

Beyond the Hype: How AI Is Finally Delivering on Digital Health’s Promise

2026/02/04

After a decade of disappointment with electronic health records that turned physicians into data-entry clerks, generative AI is emerging as the transformative force that will restore the physician-patient relationship while solving health care’s most intractable operational challenges.