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Nursing Catalyst: Workforce Retention Strategy

Nurse leaders would agree—we need to rethink how we approach retention because the same old strategies aren’t working. Forty percent of RNs report decreased satisfaction with their jobs, and it costs health systems approximately $52,000 to replace one RN. In a first-of-its-kind study, Nursing Catalyst re-examined the “forces of magnetism” leading to med/surg units experiencing […]

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Strategy Catalyst: Shifting Margin Pools

Projected operating margins for leading health systems are expected to decline from -0.8% to -1.6% in 2023. Historically safe margin pools for leading health systems have become less stable in the past few years. Similarly, the Covid pandemic shifted margin pools across the industry, opening profitable business lines while others contracted. As health systems look […]

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3 Essential Tips for Consumer and Digital Industry Partners Selling Healthcare Technology to Health Systems

3 Essential Tips for Consumer and Digital Industry Partners Selling Healthcare Technology to Health Systems Unpredictable market conditions and stressed leading health system (LHS) budgets are hampering industry sales executives with solutions at the intersection of consumer and digital strategy. However, 90% of LHS* are increasing their healthcare technology investments over 2022, giving industry members […]

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Academy IQ Virtual Briefing: Investment in Healthcare Tech: Where are Leading Health Systems Spending?

On-Demand   Join Academy IQ for a virtual briefing on how leading health systems expect their budgetary spend in healthcare technology to change over the next three years. These cutting-edge insights will equip industry partners with greater clarity into the healthcare technologies leading healthcare systems plan to budget for an implement. This gives industry partners […]

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The Health Management Academy Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Today, The Health Management Academy announced its 25th anniversary as the nation’s premier leading health systems insights generator and healthcare executive convener. Incorporated in 1998, The Health Management Academy began with a simple premise: to effectively develop and facilitate a strong, trusted community of health system and industry leaders, providing them with impactful and insightful […]

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Welcoming the Class of 2025 Academy AWS Technology Fellows

  Rising CIOs & CTOs Mona A. Baset VP, Digital Services Intermountain Healthcare Christopher Alton Brown VP Operations, Medical Group Cone Health Ronald Howard Carson II Executive Director Enterprise Application Services Nebraska Medicine     Kathleen Fear, Ph.D. Director of Data & Analytics UR Health Lab, University of Rochester Medical Center Adrian Finemel Director of […]

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Health Equity Alliance: Top Health Equity Trends in 2023

DEI Leaders – the Health Equity Alliance, a consortium fostering scalable solution acceleration and crucial leadership activation, is giving health equity leaders the opportunity to learn more about how health systems are prioritizing the following efforts across 2023. Featured speaker, Corey Smith, Director of Health Equity for Corewell Health, will share insights and key takeaways […]

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Top 3 Insights for CSOs on Payvider Strategy

Payviders Are Already Impacting Health System Revenue Growth and Market Share In recent years, insurers have ramped up acquisitions of providers and practices. Payers and private equity have scooped up 32,000 physicians since 2020 – an 86% increase. By evolving towards paying and delivering care, many payers are more accurately described as ‘payviders’. We anticipate […]

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Welcome to Our Evolution!

At The Health Management Academy, we’re celebrating 25 years of cultivating the premier community of healthcare’s influential changemakers – from the top U.S. health systems and innovative industry partners. And we’re just getting started. We continue delivering on our promise to drive health forward by providing C-suite leaders with a trusted community of their peers, […]

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Remembering Our Co-Founder, Gary Bisbee

Attempting to capture Gary’s legacy at The Health Management Academy in words is an impossible task, as it is truly immeasurable. Twenty-five years ago, he and our co-founder, Sherrie Jones, acted on a beautifully simple idea: health system and industry executives would require a deep, trusted, and wide community of peers to serve as a […]

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