Is the healthcare sector experiencing AI frenzy? Emphatically, yes. If you were around for the dot-com boom (and bust), today’s AI surge in healthcare should feel uncomfortably familiar. We’re seeing the same rush to invest capital and urgency to adopt AI well before the evidence demonstrates consistent, reliable, and repeatable[…]
The Crisis on Campus: Reframing Mental Health for a Generation in Need
I just finished reading a brilliant and very disturbing article about the growing mental health crisis on university campuses. In an article published by The Hill on March 18, 2026, author Lex Lonas Cochran shared alarming data. I immediately shared her article, Colleges struggle to keep up with growing mental[…]
Why Every Healthcare Strategy Is Now (or Should Be) a Digital Strategy
Healthcare leaders today are operating in one of the most complex environments the industry has ever faced. Margins are thin, workforce shortages persist, cybersecurity threats are constant, and regulatory pressures continue to grow. At the same time, patients and families who now live in a digital world expect healthcare to[…]
Innovation in Healthcare: A Pragmatist’s Perspective
Innovation in Healthcare IT: From Ideas to Impact Innovation has become one of the most overused and misunderstood words in healthcare. We talk about it constantly. We celebrate it publicly. We fund it enthusiastically. Yet too often, innovation in healthcare information technology (HIT) produces pilots that never scale, tools that[…]
Embracing Change: Choose the Future You Want Instead of the One Others Predict
The internet never forgets. It collects our photos, posts, searches, purchases, likes, and locations. Algorithms use our digital trail to predict what we might do next, what we’ll click on, what we’ll buy, even what we may believe. But while the internet can aggregate our past, it can only guess[…]
What Will Matter to Health IT Leaders in 2026: A New Era of Digital Stewardship
If history teaches us anything, it’s that healthcare does not move in straight lines. It lurches, leaps, and occasionally gets shoved into its future. We’ve all seen that firsthand. I’ve often joked that healthcare’s pace resembles a reluctant mule. That can be a strength or weakness. Like a mule confronted[…]
Vision is Important – Focus is Essential
Focus Over Vision: Why Attention on Objectives Matters Most in Healthcare We live in an age of constant distraction. We all wrestle with one or more inboxes that are usually overfull. We are barraged by cell phone calls, text messages, ads, and notifications. We are all dealing with multiple, often[…]
The Rise of Care at Home: Healthcare’s Most Important Shift Is Already Underway
One of the most profound shifts in modern healthcare isn’t happening inside hospitals or doctor’s offices, it’s happening at home. Across the country, health systems, payers, providers, and tech innovators are accelerating the move toward care-at-home models that offer high-quality, lower-cost, patient-centered alternatives to traditional facility-based care. As someone who[…]
Mental Health Month 2025 – In Every Story, There’s Strength: Facing Mental Health with Compassion and Courage
May is Mental Health Awareness Month – a time to take action, raise our voices, and help raise awareness about the importance of mental health. This year’s theme, “In Every Story, There’s Strength,” could not be more fitting. My story began when I was just ten years old, exposed for[…]
No Mission, No Margin
No Mission, No Margin: Balancing Financial Stability and Compassion in Healthcare Too often in my career, I’ve heard leaders in healthcare say, “No margin, no mission”. During my tenure at Texas Health Resources (THR), Doug Hawthorne, CEO, said during budget season in the Executive Council meeting, that he had embraced[…]