Building AI Leadership
Adapting the enterprise AI leadership model for healthcare, with focus on clinical outcomes, patient trust, and responsible data innovation.
Redefining Health Care Leadership
Indeed, we find ourselves once again at an inflection point in health care, one shaped by the accelerating rise of artificial intelligence. AI is no longer a distant concept or experimental tool; it is here, influencing clinical decisions at the bedside and strategic thinking in the boardroom.
Is This What You Signed Up For?
If you were in a hospital leadership role in the 1980s, like me, the job looked very different than it does today. Back then, leadership meant stewardship, managing a single facility, knowing your physicians by name, and walking the halls each morning to take the temperature of the organization.
Celebrating Nursing Leadership: A Conversation with Tina Ralyea
A contemporary and caring nursing leader, Tina Ralyea, DNP, MBA, MS-NP, CNL, OCN, CCRN serves as the Chief Nursing Officer for Baptist and Baptist Parkridge Hospitals, part of Prisma Health in Columbia, South Carolina. With a DNP, MBA, MS- Nurse Practitioner Adult Health and a background in critical care, Tina’s career has spanned working at […]
The CHRO of the Past, Present and Yet to Come
With the holidays approaching, I have been looking forward to spending time with family and friends, sipping hot cocoa, reciting lines from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and reading ’Twas the Night Before Christmas to my sons on Christmas Eve, an annual Fournier family tradition. I also recently opened Charles Dicken’s novella, A Christmas Carol, which recounts how Ebenezer Scrooge was […]
Innovation, Investment and Improving Healthcare: People Powered Partnerships
Recently, I was fortunate to attend VCapital’s Future of Medicine event in Chicago. Attendees heard from Harvard Medical School scientists who are shaping the future of health care around the world. Topics included the latest research on the human genome, which many consider to be the key to the future of medicine, and profiles of several startup […]
Culture Spotlight: Healthy People, Wellness and Innovation
In 2010, the US Department of Health and Human Services launched Healthy People 2020, the United States’ ambitious, yet achievable, ten-year goals for health promotion and disease prevention. Healthy People 2020 speaks to the social determinants of health, which means that social, environmental factors impact the overall health of individuals, populations and communities. Among the leading […]
Celebrating Nurses and Leadership: A Conversation with Kim Brown Sims
A passionate, health care executive, Kim Brown Sims, FACHE serves as the VP of Patient Care Services and Chief Nurse Executive at Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a St. Joseph Health hospital in northern California. With an MBA, BSN and RN, her career journey includes 35 years of experience in adult, women and children’s health […]
Leading Through Disruption – Focus on Innovation Skills
For most of us, the way we do our job and the skills required to do so are quickly changing. According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2018, “workers will see an average shift of 42% in required workplace skills in the period leading up to 2022.” Among the twelve industries studied, innovation […]
Destination Innovation
Forbes annually publishes its roster of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. The 2018 list is more than a roll call of Silicon Valley tech companies, with Alphabet only ranked #75 while ServiceNow ranked #1. Pharmaceutical, health care services and medical device companies made a respectable showing with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (#16), Cerner (#68) and Edwards Lifesciences (#55) all […]