These guides are resources for aspiring and current healthcare administration professionals. They include scholarship databases, salary tables, conference schedules, and lists of the top degrees and careers in this field.
February 13, 2025
Professional certification in a particular area of healthcare administration not only proves that the holder is competent in a specialized area, it also shows one’s commitment to continued education, professional networking, and industry-recognized best practices.
November 21, 2024
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.
September 19, 2024
Importantly, interprofessional collaboration can also provide an opportunity for individuals from historically less advantaged groups to begin building the types of professional relationships that are critical to reaching the highest levels of leadership within an organization. This promulgates diversity up through the chain of management in a more organic way.
August 30, 2024
Mastering the array of skills needed to effectively navigate and manage the people, processes, and tools at play is crucial for gaining and retaining a competitive edge. This three-part essay series summarizes important areas in which rising healthcare leaders should focus their efforts as they work to develop their essential skills and build out their knowledge base. This first essay will cover digital literacy & technological proficiency, patient-centered care competencies, and value-based care expertise.
August 8, 2024
Through a surprising May 2024 feature article in Politico, a broad audience of Americans learned for the first time that it’s now possible to provide hospital-quality care to a substantial proportion of recovering inpatients at home. What’s even more surprising is that hospitals are treating some of these patients at home for acute conditions.
July 26, 2024
Congressional leaders in the House of Representatives and the Senate unloaded blistering criticisms at Change Healthcare’s parent company UnitedHealth Group during a pair of hearings on Capitol Hill in May 2024. At issue was UnitedHealth’s management of the February cyberattack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare.
April 30, 2024
Although students in MHA and healthcare MBA programs learn a vast assortment of managerial strategies, it’s unlikely that any of these programs would have taught them how to manage through the kind of catastrophic cyberattack that shut down Change Healthcare—and much of the U.S. healthcare industry.
March 22, 2024
In the first article of this series, we looked at how the U.S. healthcare sector is measured, including the entities responsible and their methodology. This piece details each activity that comprises the enormous U.S. healthcare sector. We can group these into two major categories: healthcare services and goods, and public and private spending for healthcare and related initiatives. These categories can have their size measurably impacted by three powerful forces: population growth, healthcare inflation, and technological advances.
January 23, 2024
In late 2015, nearly 200 governments worldwide signed a landmark action plan known as the Paris Agreement. After decades of blame-shifting, disorganization, and avoidance, there was finally a formal acknowledgment of the shared nature of climate change and a unified effort toward tackling the mounting crisis.