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When Anuj Desai thinks about information technology interoperability, it's not in the common healthcare context of barriers to health data exchange, but rather, with a view to its infinite possibilities.
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Maybe Beth Feldpush's training in ballet is where she developed the poise that people say is one of her best traits as a healthcare leader.
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The way Airica Steed sees it, there was never any doubt she would pursue a career in healthcare.Every woman in her family was a nurse, including her mother—a pediatric nurse and the person she calls her first role model. “I wanted to follow in her footsteps,” says Steed, 35.
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This year has brought with it much of the turmoil that has swirled around healthcare for the past decade. While the industry is the fastest growing in the U.S., senior managers at hospitals and other organizations continue to wrestle with unique, unanticipated operational and strategic...
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Henry Thompson faced a wide range of challenges when he first took over as CEO of the Community Health Center of Richmond, a federally qualified health center on New York's Staten Island.
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As healthcare continues its rapid evolution, the new generation of leadership faces immense challenges that will require new ideas and approaches. And the industry's young executives are already proving that they're up to the task.
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During his first three years studying finance at Florida State University, Alexander Fernandez says he never considered a career in healthcare.
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Like much of the rest of the country, John Randolph Medical Center was struggling financially in 2011. The HCA hospital in Hopewell, Va., was hemorrhaging cash, and the state of its balance sheet presented one of the first major challenges for its young CEO, according to a company official.
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More than two years of speculation about health reform came to an end this year when the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. What has yet to end is uncertainty about the potential impact of the presidential election and looming “fiscal cliff”...
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Growing up in Gainesville, Fla., sports taught Phil Wright the essential skills he credits with his success as a hospital administrator: tenacity, practice—and especially blocking and tackling.
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