Becker's Physician Leadership

For a 197-bed community hospital in the remote Four Corners region — the sole health system 180 miles from the nearest major city — surgical access is a community lifeline. But manual, Excel-based OR tracking created bottlenecks, operational blind spots…

Growth is on the table for a lot of organizations right now: new locations, a multi-specialty acquisition, possibly a private equity partner. The revenue cycle has to scale with it.A hybrid model creates that room. Keep the functions your team…

Nearly 90% of health IT leaders say their operations have to change to keep pace with rising clinical, regulatory and financial complexity, according to a 2026 survey from CHIME. Eighty percent of them called interoperability a baseline expectation rather than…

There was no single metric that told Dr. Mary Affee her practice had outgrown its operations, and that was the frustrating part. She had built Horizon Integrated Wellness in Cary, N.C., from the ground up as a clinician. The systems…

For multi-location dental groups, the month-end close is too often a manual, high-stress scramble — and the more locations and entities you add, the harder it gets. But the close is more than a back-office chore. How quickly and cleanly…

Healthcare organizations are projected to face about 1.9 million job openings each year through 2034, driven by growing demand and the need to replace workers leaving the field. For years, health systems have tackled workforce challenges one at a time…

During Hurricane Ida in 2021, FEMA reported 39 Louisiana medical facilities were running on generator power. Traditional emergency systems are built to carry only a fraction of a hospital’s operations and when an outage stretches from hours into days, that…