Healthcare Decision Making

From Data to Decisions: Leadership, Trust, and AI in Healthcare with Dr. Julia Rehman

Learn how healthcare leaders can integrate AI effectively while maintaining governance, human judgment, and frontline staff engagement in clinical decisions.

OpenAI Links ChatGPT to Epic EHRs, Adds Health Data Plugin

OpenAI has connected ChatGPT for Healthcare to Epic EHRs and launched a plugin linking clinicians to nine public healthcare data sources.

Who's Really Running Healthcare? (When Physicians No Longer Have a Voice) - Dr. Krishna Vedala

Explore why physicians feel disengaged from healthcare organizations, how primary care mismanagement drives burnout, and AI's role in returning time to…

Microsoft’s 60% Dragon Copilot discount forces a new way to measure digital health ROI

As Microsoft and Pivot Point push Dragon Copilot into rural hospitals, Europe’s EDiHTA work shows why buyers now need a repeatable way to price evidence.

The Cost of Waiting: Why Healthcare Can't Afford Slow Decisions with Mark Van Sumeren

Healthcare strategist Mark Van Sumeren explains why delayed decisions drain capacity and how leaders can balance deliberation with speed in a…

Leading with Purpose: Dr. David Foster on Building Physician-Administrator Collaboration

Healthcare alignment requires genuine partnership between clinicians and administrators.

How Lived Experience Drives One's Clinical Practice Leadership - Patrick Makarewich, UTSouthwestern

From Denial to Access: Rethinking Oncology Care Through AI, Clinical Trials, and Patient-Centered Innovation

The rapid expansion of precision medicine, biologics, and targeted cancer therapies is transforming oncology—but it’s also overwhelming a system not built to keep pace. In the U.S., cancer drugs now account for some of the highest-cost treatments in healthcare, and with that has come a surge in prior authorization requirements and denials. Studies suggest physicians…

Navigating Payer Denials: A Physician Advisor’s Perspective #2

A physician advisor recently described a case that should unsettle anyone who cares about fair, clinically grounded coverage decisions: a Medicaid patient arrived comatose from an overdose, was emergently intubated, developed aspiration pneumonia, and stayed through three midnights before leaving against medical advice. By any bedside standard, this is acute, unstable care—exactly what…

The Answers You Wanted On Sepsis – Episode 3

In episode three of The Michael Rothman Podcast, Dr. Rothman continues his deep dive into sepsis—a condition often misunderstood yet responsible for a significant portion of hospital deaths. Through data from a major northeastern hospital, he challenges traditional thinking: labeling a patient as “septic” isn’t what determines survival—their overall sickness is. Using the…

Leading Through Change: Dr. Kevin Stevenson on Workforce, Innovation, and the Future of Healthcare

Healthcare is at a critical turning point, where staffing pressures, shrinking reimbursements, and rising patient expectations are reshaping the future of healthcare. According to the AACN Nursing Workforce Fact Sheet, the federal government projects more than 203,000 new registered nurse positions will be created annually from 2021 to 2031, reflecting high demand from an…

Just Thinking… About the Role of Critical Thinking in Cardiac Care With Dr. Minh Tran

As cardiovascular disease continues to rank as the leading cause of death globally, the importance of expert cardiac care has never been more evident. The American Heart Association reports that over 800,000 Americans experience a heart attack each year, and many rely on the fast, critical thinking of cardiac specialists to survive. In an…

Wisdom from the Aerial view in a DisruptED World with Dr. Mark Klein

Taking a step back from daily chaos reveals the strategic patterns needed to navigate simultaneous industry disruptions

Improving Outcomes and Lowering the Cost of Care

Healthcare leaders are discovering that smarter data use and technology investments hold the key to delivering quality care at sustainable costs

The Voice of the Patient… Heard Through the Megaphone of Data

A healthcare leader shares how capturing and analyzing patient data can transform clinical decision-making and close outcome gaps across populations

Unraveling E&M 2023 Code Changes: Impact and Implications on Healthcare

Healthcare providers face a critical transition as coding standards shift focus from documentation volume to clinical decision-making