During and after the COVID pandemic, there’s been an influx of digital mental health applications. Experts debate their usage and efficacy, particularly regarding ethical and privacy considerations: for example, in a 2023 FTC settlement, online therapy app BetterHelp was fined for its use of private health data. Digital health technologies (DHTs) have the capacity to … Continue reading “Digital Technology for Mental Health: Apps and Beyond”
When health care leaders and professionals want to undertake improvement projects in their practice or organization, they often need help honing in on where to start. Unfortunately, that stagnancy leads to a lack of progress. “If we continue to do what we’re doing, we continue to get the results that we’re getting. If we want … Continue reading “Using Simulation Exercises to Find Breakthrough Results in Quality Improvement”
For many health care organizations, necessary diversity, equity, and inclusion work has been ongoing for the past few years. After these initiatives pass the development stage, many are now experiencing roadblocks, pushback, or stagnation. What do we do now? DEI experts may be wondering. “Now the office exists, and you’re trying to hold onto it. … Continue reading “The Future of DEI in Health Care: How to Maintain, Protect, and Support Initiatives”
The “value of a life” sounds like an existential question, more suited for philosophers and ethicists than economists. Yet we make economic decisions almost every day that reflect the value we each place on reducing our own risk of dying. We might pay more for safer food, for a house in a safer neighborhood, or … Continue reading “How to Value a Life”
Physician leaders who join the two-week Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers program—usually those at the chief or medical director level—do so to hone the skills required for excelling at the next stage of medicine: the art of organizational business, increased financial literacy, and managerial skills. Yet, they walk away with those skills … Continue reading “The Skills Physician Leaders Need Today”
While an extensive number of machine-learning models are developed, many of them are never put into use. “All those amazing models could be helping patients,” says Santiago Romero-Brufau, M.D., Ph.D., Program Director of Implementing Health Care AI into Clinical Practice and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T. H. Chan School … Continue reading “The Implementation Gap: Using Artificial Intelligence to Help Patients in Clinical Practices”
In a bid to become carbon neutral (and often to establish better energy security for their citizens), developing countries are exploring nuclear power. Within the past few years, several Southeast Asian countries have announced plans to develop new nuclear technology, including Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia; Malaysia has outlined a preliminary nuclear policy. Other … Continue reading “The Geopolitical Complexities of Nuclear Development in Developing Countries”
Senior health care executives recently shared their predictions for both challenges and opportunities in the year ahead. They include persistent issues such as evolving business models, high labor costs, talent retention, and new factors including virtual nursing and customized patient experiences. The bottom line is that leaders in health systems will be navigating turbulence and … Continue reading “Health System Leaders Face Disruption and Uncertainty in 2024”
The working world post-COVID-19 looks a lot different, both in terms of how we work and what we do—which means that managers in leadership positions need to adapt to this new environment. “Everything’s changed. There’s a tremendous amount of burnout in the industry. We’re on the other side of the Great Resignation. We’re seeing a … Continue reading “How to Build, Manage, and Maintain Strong Teams in the Modern Health Care Space”
In the nuclear industry, a philosophy of continual improvement is crucial to protecting the health and safety of workers, the public, and the environment. “Although nuclear incidents are few and far between, they can have catastrophic consequences,” says Ron Bellamy, Ph.D., Co-Program Director of the In-Place Filter Testing Workshop, a program offered for several decades by … Continue reading “The Importance of Continual Improvement in Maintaining Nuclear Air Cleaning Systems”
