Over the last two years, healthcare organizations have been forced to become more agile and dynamic. For ongoing healthcare transformation to be successful, however, organizational agility must become the norm — not the exception. 

Your online reputation is critical to your practice's growth plan. The reason? Most patients start their healthcare journeys by reading online reviews.

Minimally invasive robotic surgery has evolved from ad-hoc acquisitions of robots by surgical departments to being part of an intentional programmatic approach designed to provide cutting-edge care.

Healthcare financial and operational leaders are grappling with major challenges like labor shortages, patient satisfaction and a proliferation of technology vendors to manage. Many leaders see the patient financial experience as ripe for transformation and believe that digital tools and new approaches to revenue cycle operations can help.

During a May Becker's Hospital Review webinar sponsored by HOPCo, Wael Barsoum, MD, the company's president and chief transformation officer, shared insights about the most common reasons VBC models fail and how organizations interested in implementing these models can reconceptualize them. 

Caught between the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic and care delivery models that have outlived their usefulness, healthcare is undergoing large-scale transformation — in terms of both staffing and models of care.

HHS and the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity released the first installment in its climate and health series May 6. 

Many organizations chose to stay silent when the Supreme Court's draft ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked, indicating a hesitancy of corporations to make a clear stand on the issue, reported The New York Times May 4.

CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch discussed the company's expansion at a May 4 earnings call, revealing it is continuing to push into primary care and improve its digital offerings. 

Intelligent automation — a tool leveraged across industries to accelerate and standardize workflows, solve staffing problems and elevate the user experience — has finally arrived in healthcare.

Columbus, Ohio- based Wexner Medical Center has made a concerted effort to reduce its emissions as a system, implementing waste reduction techniques, sustainable construction and local supplier sourcing.

CVS Health pulled in 11.2 percent higher revenues in the first quarter of 2022, seeing the largest growth in its health insurance business, according to the company's earnings report released May 4.

Failure to close care gaps can result in missed diagnoses, increased healthcare spending, and lower performance on value-based care contracts – yet reviewing patient charts to identify and validate care gaps is one of the most administratively burdensome tasks in healthcare. 

From curbside check-ins and parking lot waiting rooms to telemedicine and virtual care, patients now expect consumer-like experiences from healthcare providers.

Health news about the COVID‑19 pandemic is constantly in flux, highlighting the necessity of reliable, evidence-based health advice for consumers to make personal health decisions.

Kaiser Permanente has partnered with Project Equity and Obran Cooperative to create an employee ownership joint initiative.

HHS announced April 21 the availability of $90 million in American Rescue Plan funds to support data-driven efforts to reduce health disparities.

Failing shopping malls are being converted into health clinics across the country as they offer accessibility and convenience to patients, reported Fortune April 25.

Healthcare providers can make small adjustments to their practice to reduce their carbon footprint, reported the AMA April 19.

Hospitals can maximize their investment in surgical services by leveraging analytics insights from Merlin