Physician leaders and policymakers must understand the attributes of their patients’ communities and geographies. Numerous databases provide access to extensive data too numerous to manage casually.

Leading healthcare organizations are using remote patient monitoring (RPM), which, according to some studies, is associated with improved patient outcomes and high patient and clinician satisfaction.

Healthcare is a complex and dynamic industry that requires constant innovation, collaboration, and adaptation.

Narrative medicine programs have become increasingly popular among physicians, aiming to teach doctors and other caregivers sensitive interviewing skills and the art of empathic listening and storytelling to improve patient care.

In today’s demanding healthcare environment, physician leaders must learn to make well-formed decisions and avoid being misled by their emotions.

Every day 10,000 Americans reach the traditional retirement age of 65. Critical skills, experience, and connections can walk out the door with each retirement. The good news is that many older employees want to keep working; in fact, nearly 60% say t...

Physician leaders and policymakers must understand the attributes of their patients’ communities and geographies. Numerous databases provide access to extensive data too numerous to manage casually.

Leading healthcare organizations are using remote patient monitoring (RPM), which, according to some studies, is associated with improved patient outcomes and high patient and clinician satisfaction.

Until recently most incumbent industrial companies didn’t use highly advanced software in their products. But now the sector’s leaders have begun applying generative AI and machine learning to all kinds of data—including text, 3D images, video, and s...

Every other month, the HALM Journal will deliver indispensable and reliable results-oriented guidance for a healthcare industry moving toward inter-professional management and leadership that positively impacts patient care outcomes and population ...

There has been a dramatic escalation in the use of utilization review programs in an effort to constrain the surge of rising healthcare costs. Utilization review serves to verify the “medical necessity” of hospital admissions and specific medical pro...

A physician boards a plane and sits down. If there is a medical emergency in-flight, does the physician face moral/ethical/legal risk by acts of commission or omission in relation to the medical emergency?

Improving the patient’s experience is not easy because it often requires a change in the overall culture of the healthcare organization.

Corey Conrath is service line medical director for Marshfield Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He describes here the importance of occupational health.

In recent years, the practice of management has often felt like an exercise in putting out fires. Facing one social, environmental, and economic crisis after the next, it’s easy to get stuck in a near-singular focus on the short term. But at the same...

Healthcare is a complex and dynamic industry that requires constant innovation, collaboration, and adaptation.

Processing feedback goes far beyond listening to it in the moment and implementing it; it involves continuous reflection, conversation, and practice. While much of this happens because of the way we receive feedback, there is much we can do, too, to ...

William von Hippel of the University of Queensland and a team of researchers recruited dozens of small groups of friends for a study. They gave participants intelligence and personality tests and then asked each subject to answer 30 common-knowledge ...

In the physician’s office, the schedule itself is the most powerful and influential aspect of the physician’s day — and it can control you or you can control it.

If you’ve ever developed a product, you’ve almost certainly been derailed by scope creep. Features multiply, priorities blur, and schedules and budgets suffer. As a leader, how can you recognize scope creep and realign your team? Shift the focus from...

Research from PwC reveals that the highest-performing organizations invest in a growth system, an integrated collection of capabilities and assets that drives both short-term and long-term growth. The authors provide a framework for building a growth...

The patterns of declining Medicare reimbursement rates over time have been documented in various disciplines of healthcare, but little research has been done on geographic trends in Medicare reimbursement in the areas of hospice and palliative medici...

Healthcare strategies require collaboration among specialized teams in high-tech environments with significant capital investments. Physician leaders are crucial in leading team performance and should be involved in all phases of the strategic planni...

What are the most important things to look for when hiring a new financial advisor or reviewing your current one?

One of the most challenging aspects of a virtual meeting is keeping people’s attention. It’s important to be thoughtful about how you engage attendees. The key is to sustain a continual expectation of meaningful involvement so participants don’t retr...

The future of work will not be determined by technology, but by creating the right mix of education, exposure, and experience needed to develop skills and put them to work, creating a vastly more productive workplace and economy.

Managers have tried various strategies and perks to boost employee engagement—all with little impact on long-term retention and performance. But now, neuroscience offers some answers. Through his research on the brain chemical oxytocin—shown to facil...

AAPL believes physician leaders who are pursuing leadership education and training — and the organizations that are supporting their effort — should be able to clearly see the value of their time, money, and effort.

The business plan is the basic tool that entrepreneurs in the health sector need to transform their idea into an opportunity and make it happen. Evaluating the opportunity is the first step in the process.

The 2024 AAPL Leadership Conference in Nashville wrapped up with a keynote address on AAPL’s Future Direction & ROI of Physician Leadership as well as a Career Workshop.