Operations

For rural health systems, the pressures are relentless: margins erode, workforce shortages persist and access shrinks every time a service line closes. The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program is a once-in-a-generation chance to reverse that trajectory, but funding alone…

As oncology care continues to shift into ambulatory infusion settings, nurses are caring for sicker patients, more complex regimens, and increasingly unpredictable days. Yet many infusion centers still rely on time-based models, nurse-to-chair ratios, or single acuity scores that fail…

By the time a unit feels pressure from the emergency department, the opportunity to alleviate it has already passed. Beds get assigned late, huddles run on what already happened and staffing catches up to a surge instead of meeting it.…

Healthcare supply chains can no longer rely on reactive strategies. Persistent shortages, fluctuating costs and global disruptions have exposed vulnerabilities in traditional procurement models, while finance and operations leaders are being asked to improve efficiency, reduce waste and strengthen resilience.…

Crowded EDs, delayed discharges, clinician shortages and rising financial pressure are squeezing health systems from every direction. For years the answer was to add capacity. In most markets, that is no longer realistic. This panel brings together executives from Vituity,…

Workplace violence against healthcare workers is impossible to ignore, with more than 80% of nurses reporting at least one incident in a single year, according to a 2024 National Nurses United report. The fallout reaches well beyond the bedside. Six…

Budgets are tight, clinical standards are higher than ever and sustainability scrutiny is intensifying. Yet many hospitals still run fragmented environmental services programs: multiple disinfectant chemistries, inconsistent ordering and heavy reliance on reusable textiles that drive laundry, logistics and rework.…

Disconnected systems don’t just slow operations, they create friction at every point of the patient journey and erode the staff experience over time. Many organizations have invested heavily in new tools. But when scheduling, communication, clinical workflows and follow-up care…

Imagine complete patient records from any U.S. provider arriving as clean, structured, normalized data, no phone calls, no faxes, no staff buried in reconciling charts. For most organizations, that reality is still out of reach. It doesn’t have to be.…

Like many health systems, Erlanger faced operational challenges that capped surgical growth: 30% of OR block time went unused, non-robotic cases occupied robotic rooms, independent surgeons were taking cases to competitors and scheduling was a manual, cumbersome process. Traditional scheduling…