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NHS commits £10bn to health tech, with ambient voice and pathology digitization at the center

NHS England is rolling out integrated ambient voice technology and pathology digitization as part of a £10bn tech funding commitment, with reviews suggesting £4

Why hospitals must build emergency plans long before disaster strikes

When a disaster strikes a hospital, the margin for error is almost nonexistent. Patient care cannot pause, critical systems cannot go dark, and staff cannot afford to improvise under pressure. The difference between a facility that weathers an emergency and one that struggles through it often comes

From Institutional Excellence to Population-Level Access: How Pakistan Can Bridge Its Healthcare Divide

Healthcare systems are under pressure almost everywhere, but the strain is especially visible in lower-resource settings where demand is rising faster than infrastructure. In Pakistan, that pressure is playing out across a system that has to serve more than 250 million people with limited public investment. Public health spending remains below 1% of GDP,…

Redesigning Finance from the Inside Out with Sham Firdausi

Santa Clara County's deputy CFO Sham Firdausi on redesigning public health finance, absorbing a $1B shortfall, and embedding finance into clinical operations.

A Physician Entrepreneur’s Playbook for Fixing America’s Specialty Care Gap

The U.S. healthcare system is facing a quiet but accelerating crisis: a widening gap between where specialists are needed and where they actually practice. In urology alone, there are roughly 1,100 open positions but only about 400 new specialists trained each year—a mismatch that’s only getting worse. As physician burnout rises and more clinicians…

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…

From Classroom to Clinic: Pre-Clinical Talent Steps Into Healthcare’s Hard-to-Fill Roles

Healthcare systems are facing a workforce crisis that’s no longer temporary—it’s structural. Even before COVID-19, staffing shortages across nursing, technical, and administrative roles were already straining capacity; today, those gaps are wider, costlier, and directly impacting patient access. With labor shortages persisting and burnout rising, health systems are being forced to rethink not just…

Healthcare’s 2026 Reality: Growing Workforce Gaps, Tiered Access, and the Rise of AI Support

Healthcare systems are entering 2026 under mounting pressure. A growing, aging population and rising disease burden are colliding with persistent workforce shortages—highlighted by projections that new cancer diagnoses in the U.S. will surpass two million this year alone. The stakes are no longer theoretical: delays in care, limited specialist access, and widening disparities are…

Diagnosing Your Capital Asset Health: Why Asset Visibility Is the New Financial Imperative in Healthcare

Hospitals and surgery centers own millions of dollars in equipment — but owning assets and having actionable visibility into them are two different things. Most systems maintain inventories, yet many struggle with outdated records, fragmented tracking, and limited insight into useful life or service contracts. With nearly half of U.S. hospitals reporting negative operating…

Exploring the Intersection of Board Governance, Community Engagement and Creativity with Ann Margolin

Behind every city vote, hospital budget or zoning decision is a leader navigating tough, often conflicting priorities. Right now, public leaders are operating in an environment of rising healthcare costs, workforce shortages and heightened community expectations—especially within safety-net systems that collectively provide billions in uncompensated care each year. The stakes are real—they affect patients…

The Legacy of Dr. G. Duncan Finlay – Episode 6

The Rothman Index, developed by Dr. Michael Rothman and his brother Steven, is a pioneering patient acuity score designed to help clinicians recognize patient deterioration earlier and more clearly. Presented as an easily understood, color-coded graph that updates in real time, the Index displays upward and downward trends in patient condition at a glance—transforming…

The Origin Story of the Rothman Index – Episode 5

Hospitals collect enormous amounts of clinical data, yet preventable patient decline remains a persistent challenge. Over the past two decades, hospitals have invested heavily in early warning scores and rapid response infrastructure, but translating data into timely, meaningful action has proven difficult. As clinicians contend with alert fatigue and increasing documentation burden, a more…

My Mother and the Story of the Genesis of the Rothman Index – Episode 4

Healthcare generates enormous volumes of clinical data, yet making sense of that information in real time remains a challenge. Subtle changes in vitals, labs, and nursing assessments often precede serious events, but when that information is fragmented across the medical record, emerging risks can go unnoticed. The central challenge facing hospitals today is not…

Technology Is Transforming Cardiovascular Care But Can Access Keep Up?

Cardiovascular care is entering one of its most transformative periods in decades. Advances in AI imaging and minimally invasive procedures are transforming the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 19.8 million people died from cardiovascular diseases in 2022, representing approximately 32% of all global deaths. This…

Simplifying the Complex: Actionable Systems Lead to Clarity, Confidence, and Success

Simplifying the complex has become a defining advantage in today’s professional world—whether you’re navigating Medicare, building a business, or pursuing professional growth. According to a 2024 PwC study, more than half of employees feel there is too much change happening at work all at once, and 44% don’t understand the reasons for the changes….

Transformation Without Disruption: How Access Healthcare Is Rewiring the Revenue Cycle with Agentic AI

Hospitals are juggling shrinking margins and rising costs while denial volumes remain stubbornly high. In the revenue cycle alone, hundreds of billions are lost annually to preventable errors and inefficiencies—in fact, Access Healthcare CEO Shaji Ravi cites more than $250 billion wasted each year. Meanwhile, payers have accelerated their use of AI to adjudicate…

2025 DAISY Award Spotlight: Jocelyn Musni

In this special episode of Care Anywhere: The Global Health Workforce Podcast, host Lea Sims welcomes two passionate advocates for ethical nurse recruitment: Jocelyn Musni, Chief Clinical Officer at Alere Care Solutions and 2025 recipient of the Daisy Award for Ethical Nurse Recruitment, and Coleen Santa Anna, Managing Owner and CEO of Alere. Together,…

Giving Back to Support Nursing Education

In this episode of Care Anywhere, host Lea Sims sits down with Louis Brownstone, President of WorldWide HealthStaff Solutions, to explore how one of the largest global staffing organizations is giving back to nursing education in meaningful, long-term ways. While known for their direct hire placements across the U.S. and Middle East, WorldWide is also…

Healthcare Operations Improve with AI That Unites Data, Automation, and Ethics

Generative AI has captured the public imagination, but its most transformative use cases may lie far from flashy consumer tools. In healthcare operations, where complexity, inefficiency, and fragmentation remain persistent challenges, AI is now driving measurable improvements. Research suggests AI-enabled healthcare systems could cut administrative costs by up to $360 billion in the U.S. alone….

Advancing Rehabilitative Care Through Global Practice Standards and Credentialing – Live from ICN

Broadcasting from the 2025 International Council of Nurses Congress in Helsinki, host Lea Sims welcomes two inspiring Jamaican nurses—Andrea Christie, MSc, BSN, ENLAC, RM, RN, JP, and Karlene Miller, RN—to discuss the vital but often overlooked specialty of rehabilitative nursing. With decades of combined experience in rehabilitation and midwifery, both guests offer an impassioned…

Modular, Flexible, Scalable: The IntelliFinishing System Grows with Your Business

Companies can expand finishing operations in phases without replacing their entire conveyor infrastructure

Demystifying the Global Health Workforce

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

Private Equity and Venture Capital Are Transforming Healthcare – But at What Cost?

Billions in healthcare investments fuel innovation while raising concerns about whether profit motives align with patient care

Universal Health Coverage: A Catalyst for Global Change

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

Market-Based Planning, Specialization and Technology To Shape Healthcare Provider Networks for Tomorrow

Health systems must strategically realign their provider networks to balance community demand with financial viability amid a looming physician shortage

Extreme Networks: Ensuring Reliable Connectivity in Healthcare

Healthcare systems managing tens of thousands of daily users depend on robust network infrastructure to prevent costly downtime and safeguard patient outcomes

New Design, New Opportunities with clariti® 1 day multifocal 3 Add

The redesigned lens combines advanced optics with streamlined fitting to help practitioners serve presbyopic patients more effectively

Patient Physician Network Provides Financial Integration and Value-Based Care Support to Keep Independent Physicians Viable.

Independent doctors are discovering how financial integration and coordinated care models help them compete against health system consolidation

Get Ready for ‘Care Anywhere’: The Upcoming Podcast Changing the Narrative of Global Healthcare

A new podcast series tackles the global healthcare worker shortage by centering conversations on international training standards and workforce development

How InReach CT has Sped up the Pace of Research at the University of Arizona Hand Research Laboratory

Advanced imaging technology is cutting research timelines in half for hand biomechanics studies