Leadership Conversations

What are the key health care policy challenges and opportunities on the horizon for 2025, and how might recent election outcomes shape these discussions?

Family caregivers of acutely ill patients are critical members of the care team. How can health care professionals better support these care partners?

How can employers provide health insurance coverage that’s both high quality and affordable?

A health care CEO’s most important responsibility is to maintain the sacredness of the patient-clinician relationship and ensure that interaction is as valuable for both the physician and the patient as possible.

What competencies are needed in the boardroom to advance the mission of creating healthier communities? How do health care system governance boards make these changes?

A checklist of leadership skills for building trust through transparency, actions, and consistency that apply to health care mergers as well as day-to-day health care leadership.

Innovative examples of overcoming challenges in rural health care access caused by distance, weather, clinician shortages, and other reasons, by connecting with patients virtually and locally.

Value-based care frees up health care organizations to go upstream and invest in the health and well-being of their community members.

In strategic partnerships with others focused on improving costs and efficiencies, a health system needs to continue to be the right side of the brain, looking for the opportunities, not doing the routine tasks.

We need to redesign the care delivery model in a way that allows physicians to be the good doctors they are while still providing patients with full access to care.

Everyone in health care can integrate Mangomoments into their daily practice.

Sustainable, forward-looking health care systems need to provide community-based care while managing risk-based economic models and populations.

The bar is not set for high-performing health care systems. It’s moving, with many opportunities to improve beyond inconsistent greatness. Transformation involves changes in mindsets, culture, and processes, along with a particular approach to care delivery.

With core outcome measures set for ICHOM, the next step is maintaining focus on implementation.

A six-component model for including gig workers as valued members of the health care team.

How Kaiser Permanente became the first carbon-neutral health system and the eighth-largest user of solar energy in the United States.

The external and internal factors necessary for population health management in the transformation to value-based care.

With health care in crisis, switching to value-based care is a necessary disruption that organizations and nations must take.

The purpose of health care systems is not just to cure illness. To make a dent, they must be part of their communities, addressing inequities in care.

When it comes to PROMs, there’s a difference between measuring something important to patients’ treatments versus important to their lives.

Health cannot be achieved unless health care also addresses mental health and social care.

Health care does not begin when someone walks in the door of their doctor’s office, but when they search online for videos and articles and then act on that information — whether good or bad.

From generators to digital medicine, Ochsner has bolstered its processes to be ready for the worst.

A directional approach from The Joint Commission on three key areas of health care quality improvement.

How creating a short TV show with health care leadership captured the attention of staff at Vanderbilt far more than written communication.