Interviews & Expert Perspectives

These interviews and expert-written features offer a look into the healthcare industry from those who know it best: professors, practicing healthcare administrators, advocates, and leaders in professional associations.

Student Loan Changes in 2026 - What Healthcare Professionals Are Affected? February 9, 2026

Student Loan Changes in 2026 - What Healthcare Professionals Are Affected?

Major changes to the federal student loan system are set to take effect in 2026, reshaping how graduate and professional students, including many pursuing healthcare careers, will finance their education.

What is Networking, Really? Tips from a Healthcare Professional February 6, 2026

What is Networking, Really? Tips from a Healthcare Professional

Human nature prefers familiarity over the unknown. This has been demonstrated by research time and time again, and this is an important concept within networking. You increase your odds of connecting with an opportunity you can leverage for yourself because someone remembered you and how your professional skillset overlapped with the opportunity.

How to Get Started with Billing RPM & CCM Codes in a Clinical Practice: Pt. 1 January 26, 2026

How to Get Started with Billing RPM & CCM Codes in a Clinical Practice: Pt. 1

This article aims to help give practice managers a framework for how to wrap their heads around the RPM/CCM code workflow, so they may better decide if it makes sense to take the next step and run a pilot program of their own.

Healthcare: A Business, a Right, or Both? December 29, 2025

Healthcare: A Business, a Right, or Both?

The debate over whether healthcare should be treated as a business or a right has gone on for decades. Both sides have a similar end goal, and that is for our nation to boast a healthy population of generally productive individuals without bankrupting itself in the process. The disagreement is mostly in how to achieve the goal.

Fighting Bias in Healthcare: Classism & Care Access July 28, 2025

Fighting Bias in Healthcare: Classism & Care Access

Classism in healthcare is a pervasive issue that significantly impedes access to quality treatment and care. The socioeconomic status of individuals often dictates the standard and frequency of healthcare they receive. This systemic bias typically involves prejudices, attitudes, and actions favoring the higher socioeconomic classes while marginalizing those in the lower strata of society.

A Day in the Life of a Hospital CEO - An Interview with Dr. David Pate June 30, 2025

A Day in the Life of a Hospital CEO - An Interview with Dr. David Pate

Being the chief executive officer of a hospital means being part business leader and part politician, requiring a blend of diplomacy, advocacy, business management, and financial sense. And the stakes of this role aren’t just profit and loss, but life and death.

Patients Not Told AI Drafted Messages From Their Doctors April 7, 2025

Patients Not Told AI Drafted Messages From Their Doctors

Increasingly, doctors aren’t writing the first drafts of replies to those messages. At more than 150 health systems and medical offices across America, a new generative artificial intelligence function in MyChart now writes over a million reply drafts every month.

Steward Health: CEO Charged With Contempt of Congress After Defying Subpoena to Testify April 1, 2025

Steward Health: CEO Charged With Contempt of Congress After Defying Subpoena to Testify

The national media has been buzzing with coverage of Dr. Ralph de la Torre, the embattled former CEO of hospital industry giant Steward Health Care who stepped down in October 2024. In one of the most colossal failures of a hospital chain in American history, the Dallas-based for-profit Steward system declared bankruptcy the previous May.

Preventative Healthcare: A Healthcare Leader's Overview November 21, 2024

Preventative Healthcare: A Healthcare Leader's Overview

This essay establishes a basic framework for debating the merits of preventive care by exploring its primary components, proposed economic and societal benefits, barriers, and predicted future shifts.