Healthcare Policy

Policy, Patients, and the Future of Healthcare: How Texas Plans to Fix a Strained System

The U.S. healthcare system is under real strain—and it’s something both patients and physicians are feeling in everyday care. In Texas, those pressures are even more visible, where rapid population growth, rural access challenges, and regulatory complexity are making it harder for patients to get timely care and for doctors to focus on medicine…

Policy, AI, and New Funding Models Are Reshaping Mental Health Care Delivery

Mental health care isn’t a new problem—but it’s finally being treated like an urgent one. After years of being sidelined, the cracks in the system are becoming impossible to ignore: overstretched clinicians, long wait times, and entire communities without consistent access to care. In the U.S., the scale is striking—more than one in five…

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…

From the Bench: How Research Can Help Us Build a Future-Ready Global Healthcare Workforce

The Care Anywhere podcast is taking listeners behind the scenes of global health workforce research with a brand-new series: From the Bench. In this kickoff episode, host Lea Sims talks with Dr. Lauren Herckis of TruMerit about how research can move from data to real-world impact — revealing how evidence, collaboration, and curiosity are driving…

How THA Strengthens Texas Healthcare Through Policy, Workforce Solutions, and Community Collaboration

As healthcare continues to evolve in response to post-pandemic challenges, workforce shortages, and an ongoing mental health crisis, the institutions that support the backbone of healthcare—hospitals—are under immense pressure. In Texas, where geographic and demographic diversity create unique complexities, the role of hospital associations in steering policy and support services is more vital than…

Empowering Choice and Opportunity

In this episode of Care Anywhere: The Global Health Workforce Podcast, host Lea Sims welcomes Pandora Hardtman, an internationally recognized nurse midwife and global health leader. Pandora reflects on her personal journey from the Caribbean to serving as Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer at Jhpiego and now as a midwifery consultant with the United Nations…

The Power of Research to Transform Specialty Nursing – Live from ICN

In this special episode recorded live from the 2025 International Council of Nurses (ICN) Congress in Helsinki, host Lea Sims welcomes Dr. Oscar Noel Ocho, Director and Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies School of Nursing. With more than four decades of experience in specialty nursing and education, Dr. Ocho brings a…

Demystifying the Global Health Workforce

Global nursing shortages are reshaping healthcare systems, and international leaders share what needs to happen next

Universal Health Coverage: A Catalyst for Global Change

Nursing leaders reveal how frontline healthcare workers are reshaping policy and access across continents

Jesse Folds at CHIME Fall Forum

Healthcare IT leaders are rethinking how they measure success, moving beyond traditional metrics to prioritize patient care and staff wellbeing

ICN: Investing in the Future of the Global Nurse Workforce

A projected shortage of 13 million nurses by 2030 demands immediate action on workforce sustainability and policy reform

Congressman Adam Smith Advocates for Persistent Care From the Right Providers and Legislative Action in Mental Health Awareness

Despite affecting millions of Americans, mental health care access remains fragmented, prompting lawmakers to champion systemic reforms

New Penalties is a Push to Mitigate Cybersecurity Threats in Telecommunications and Healthcare

Regulators are cracking down on cyber vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure, but security experts question whether penalties alone can close widening gaps

Healthcare Technological Innovations Drive Improved Patient Outcomes and Streamlined Processes

Digital tools are reshaping how hospitals deliver care and operate more efficiently behind the scenes

Beyond Healthcare, How Nurses Have Shaped Modern Society

Nursing's influence extends far beyond hospital walls to reshape policy, culture, and social movements across generations

Amanda Hausmann: Can you share examples of successful outcomes that resulted from implementing or updating your contracting policies in your health system?

One systematic contracting approach lifted compliance from 70% to 99% across a multi-hospital health system

Building Trust Through Education and Data Innovation

Organizations leverage data insights and education to bridge healthcare disparities affecting underserved communities