Leadership

This news channel page highlights examples of leadership in hospital and health systems. While healthcare leadership is often seen as the positions of chief executive officers, chief clinical officers, chief of staff, and chief information officers, it also can can be other individuals or the entire healthcare system that shows unique ways to enhance patient care and manage strategies, quality, safety and revenue initiatives.

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CMS steps up its game on value-based care communications

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched a website breaking down the basics of value-based care. The site is suitable for educating healthcare consumers and professionals alike.

January 31, 2024
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Hospitals enter 2024 nurturing marginally healthy margins

Anemic post-pandemic operating margins probably won’t cause nonprofit hospitals to suffer credit downgrades “en masse.”

January 31, 2024
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Bankruptcy bug kept biting healthcare in 2023

Healthcare saw an alarming spike in Chapter 11 filings last year, lengthening a trajectory that started taking shape in mid-2022.

January 26, 2024
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TikTok march: Nurses back menaced colleague, raise awareness of patient violence

Support for a nurse who was threatened online may be growing after fellow nurses spotlighted the incident on TikTok. They’re also leveraging the situation to call for greater protection against potentially violent patients.

January 25, 2024
ChatGPT fails board certification exam

Cardiology board fail rates are increasing—can educators reverse that trend?

While 96% of first-time test takers passed the ABIM's subspecialty exam in cardiovascular disease in 2018, that number dropped to 86% in 2021 and 2022.

January 24, 2024
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Why is VA medicine more efficient than civilian healthcare? Because ‘caring—not money—is our mission’

If private hospitals and clinics mimicked the staffing strategies of the Veterans Health Administration, the former would employ almost a million fewer nonclinical workers.

January 22, 2024
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AI spots signs of rheumatic heart disease in echocardiograms as well as cardiologists

Researchers think this represents a potential breakthrough for low- and middle-income countries where access to high-quality imaging evaluations is still limited. 

January 18, 2024
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US healthcare enters 2024 with transparency momentum to build on

Both providers and payers upped their game on price transparency in 2023.

January 5, 2024

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In addition, cardiologists average an additional $75,000 per year in incentive-based bonuses. That number is only higher for two other specialties. 

CMS has issued its proposed rule for the 2025 Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment system, suggesting a payment increase of 2.6%. According to the American Hospital Association, this update would not be enough at a time when hospitals are already struggling to stay open. 

The rumors, it seems, were true. Once the deal is finalized, Shockwave Medical will operate as a business unit within Johnson & Johnson MedTech.

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