After several years of assessing and monitoring faculty burnout, engagement, work-life balance, and leadership performance, a physician-leader of a clinical division, decided to assess and monitor burnout. He coined the term “Humanistic Bundle” to de...
The time has come for management to start working with—rather than against—organized labor. Here’s how.
Many companies realize the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion. But most focus on gender and ethnicity, paying less attention to people with disabilities.
Physicians working to improve our healthcare system give us hope. Elizabeth (Beth) Garner, MD, MPH, is one of those extraordinary physician leaders.
In this SoundPractice episode host Mike Sacopulos speaks with Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, about her chapter in the book, Lessons Learned: Stories from Women Physician Leaders, her work for a non-profit, and her work in academic medicine.
In this interview with host Mike Sacopulos, Wendy Dean, MD, discusses what constitutes a moral injury and how technology and compensation models can add to the problem for healthcare employees.
The time has come for management to start working with—rather than against—organized labor. Here’s how.
Many companies realize the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion. But most focus on gender and ethnicity, paying less attention to people with disabilities.
According to the authors, managers who are examining projects that involve gathering human-provided data or leveraging existing databases need to focus on five critical issues: the provenance of the data, the purpose for which it will be used, how it...
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 ...
Pregnant and nursing employees have newly expanded rights. On December 29, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mother’s Act (PUMP Act) and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) into law.
Healthcare organizations of every size must comply with an exponentially increasing, convoluted regulatory environment that directly impacts the medical practice of physicians. Physicians need to understand how fraud, waste, abuse, and federal employ...
The role of the CSO is undergoing a rapid and dramatic transformation. This article argues for four major changes to the CSO role.
As AI continues to evolve and impact the healthcare landscape, it is crucial for policymakers, healthcare providers, and technology developers to collaborate and establish appropriate regulations that balance innovation with patient safety and privac...
Facility location and design are critical components of an integrated ambulatory system of care. This article offers a series of ideas to consider in facility location and design.
In today’s world of work, human capital is at least as important as financial capital. To survive and thrive, organizations must shift their mindset, recognizing not just that employees are a crucial asset but that those who recruit and develop them ...
To succeed as a senior executive, you need more than just special skills and competencies. You need a new mindset.
If you really want lasting satisfaction in life, you’ll need to relearn your approach to finding it. The author presents several strategies.
When faced with disruptions and downturns, many leaders and companies instinctively focus on cutting costs to maintain profitability. But some identify opportunities and then take thoughtful action to emerge from crisis even stronger.
Microaggressions affect everyone, so creating more inclusive and culturally competent workplace cultures means each of us must explore our own biases in order to become aware of them. The goal is not to be fearful of communicating with each other, bu...
Research has shown that when speaking in front of a group, people’s attention tends to gets stuck on the most emotional faces, causing them to overestimate the group’s average emotional state. In this piece, the authors share two additional findings.
In this article the authors identify five keys to ensuring that companies build an efficient, effective culture around costs that works in both good times and bad.
As value-based care continues to gain traction, physician leaders are playing an ever-increasing role in the financial success of their health systems.
Until recently, the business management of a medical practice was not included as part of medical education or residency. Most medical schools still do not provide a course in financial accounting.
After several years of assessing and monitoring faculty burnout, engagement, work-life balance, and leadership performance, a physician-leader of a clinical division, decided to assess and monitor burnout. He coined the term “Humanistic Bundle” to de...
Physician leadership belongs to us all. Let’s not waste the opportunity to collaborate more closely for the change warranted in an industry that is so deeply personal for everyone. We, our patients, and our families will all benefit from these effort...
Sponsorship is a vital mechanism for advancing the careers of junior employees. But it’s not just a one-way relationship in which everything flows from the sponsor to the sponsee. What sponsees bring to the relationship, in fact, is just as important...
Every organization has a culture by design or default, and that culture is the leaders’ responsibility.
Mike Sacopulos speaks with Kristin E. Lauter, PhD, about her chapter titled, “Trust, Access, and Visibility,” in the book, Lessons Learned: Stories from Women Leaders in STEM. Lauter is the director of Research Science, North American Labs for Meta A...
Joan L. Thomas, MD, CPE, FACC, talks about her leadership journey.