Meeting health systems where they are on the digital modernization journey
If you’re a digital health leader today, you’re likely balancing a long list of priorities from AI momentum and rising cybersecurity risks to shifting budgets, workforce strain, and a modernization journey that rarely feels linear.
Beyond burnout scores: The hidden risk in clinician engagement surveys
Every year, health system leaders review clinician engagement and burnout survey results with a familiar mix of hope and resignation. The numbers are rarely great, but they’re often “not terrible,” which can feel like a small win in an environment defined by constant pressure. A few slides later, leadership moves on, comforted by the sense […]
3 ways a strategic partner can strengthen your IT staffing operations
Is your healthcare organization feeling the strain of doing more with less? Across the industry, healthcare technology leaders are trying to staff their teams while facing ever-tightening budgets and a lack of qualified talent.
Breaking the cycle: reducing costs in NHS re-procurement
The NHS is under immense pressure to deliver more for less. With budgets stretched and demand rising, procurement has become a frontline issue for sustainability. Yet despite best intentions, repeated re-procurement exercises often inflate costs rather than reduce them. Fragmented approaches, short-term fixes and lack of alignment between clinical, operational and commercial teams can lead […]
We measure everything in healthcare… except what matters
In a recent article in BMJ Digital Health & AI, Graham Walker, MD makes an appeal that feels obvious only in hindsight: before we can seriously talk about “what good looks like” in healthcare, we need more context. Not better slogans. Not more dashboards. Context. The kind of context that captures nuance, environment, and the […]
Power to the people: Why digital healthcare transformations fail without effective change management
For most healthcare organisations, digital transformation such as a new EPR or a move to the cloud, is now a strategic necessity. Yet the returns often fall short, with one analysis estimating that around 70% of these programmes fail to deliver their intended value. In addition, with the limitations in money, human resources, and skill […]
If you want AI to think like a clinician, show it what clinicians see
When Mitesh Patel, MD, argued that self-driving cars didn’t truly accelerate (pun intended) until Tesla began feeding its algorithms massive volumes of real-world video, he wasn’t just offering a clever analogy; he was diagnosing healthcare’s AI problem. Dr. Patel’s central point is that transformative AI doesn’t emerge from better slogans or shinier interfaces; it emerges […]
Better care, lower costs: The advance care planning solution hospitals ignore
Healthcare executives continue to grapple with a longstanding problem: despite pouring billions of dollars into end-of-life care, patient satisfaction remains mediocre at best. The American healthcare system defaults to aggressive interventions—ICU admissions, mechanical ventilation, emergency surgeries—that often do little to improve a patient’s quality of life. The irony is that most patients, when asked, say […]
What shopping carts can teach us about fixing broken workflows
Recently, I came across a quirky little behavioral science investigation that looked into a surprisingly contentious issue: why people don’t return their shopping carts. The researcher spent months observing parking lots in the same way an ecologist might observe a watering hole, cataloguing the excuses, social cues, and micro-calculations behind a behavior that most of […]
How personalized medicine empowers patients and cuts healthcare costs
Originally posted on Becker’s Healthcare.