It’s hard to believe, but this week marks five years since President Trump declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency and related lockdowns across the globe turned the world we knew upside down.We remember all too well how the surging pandemic changed the way we lived, worked, shopped, educated our children and affected so many ..read more

Exec SummaryA search fund is an investment vehicle designed to support an entrepreneur (or a small team of entrepreneurs) in identifying, acquiring, and managing an existing private company, typically a small to medium-sized business.It’s a unique model often used by aspiring business owners, usually younger professionals, such as recent MBA graduates, who lack the capital ..read more

A March 11 report from the Peterson Center on Healthcare and KFF tracks the performance of healthcare systems over the last few decades. Here are 45 statistics to know:Treatment outcomesThe Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker measured treatment-related quality of care by analyzing treatable mortality, in-hospital mortality and maternal mortality. Among the findings: Treatable deaths, defined as ..read more

Congress did not fix a Medicare pay cut for clinicians in a stop-gap budget measure that appeared headed for passage late Friday. The Republican-led Senate voted 62 to 38 to advance a legislative package that will keep federal agencies running through Sept. 30 and avoid a partial government shutdown. A final vote is expected late ..read more

Today’s healthcare innovation landscape is chaotic, and the C-Suite needs to adjust to keep up. Are we ready for a Chief Storyteller or Chief Collaborator?KEY TAKEAWAYS- The frantic pace of AI adoption, aimed at addressing the challenges facing health systems today, is forcing healthcare organizations to move quickly on innovation- To keep up, CIOs are ..read more

Ladies and gentlemen, we have our latest digital health IPO after a long hiatus. It’s Hinge Health, a tech-enabled provider of virtual musculoskeletal care serving self-insured employers and payors. I couldn’t help myself and spent most of my day yesterday reading the S-1 and doing some analysis on the first tech-enabled services company to go ..read more

The company launched new offerings at the HIMSS conference. In a conversation with Chief Healthcare Executive, Google Cloud’s healthcare leader talked about AI’s emergence.Much of the information in health care records doesn’t appear in text.Google Cloud has been developing new AI-powered tools to help clinicians find the information they need in charts, images and X-rays ..read more

Artificial intelligence will continue to revolutionize the world at an arrestable and ever-increasing pace, but without adequate human oversight, it may have multiple risks, amplifying inequalities and systematic distortions. Bias in AI models and the possibility of intentional manipulation raise many ethical and strategic questions for companies and institutions that are called upon to analyze ..read more

Thousands of women now need a new doctor, but Lisa Bohman Egbert writes that she couldn’t keep going. She says it’s getting harder for independent doctors to stay afloat.Like most doctors, I always felt a calling to care for people. Quitting early wasn’t my plan, but our broken health system left no other option. December ..read more

Radiologist is the No. 1 high-paying job for introverts in 2025, according to recently published research from Resume Genius. The job-hunting website created its top 10 using salary figures and industry growth projections. Radiology leads the way with median annual compensation of $353,960, about 32,000 positions in the U.S., and projected growth of 3% through ..read more