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In the past Marc Boom, MD, often quoted Bill Gates on our tendency to overestimate the amount of change in the short term and underestimate the amount of change over the long term. That was before the COVID pandemic flipped that axiom on its head, driving health-system executives like Boom, president and CEO of Houston Methodist, to achieve overnight what in pre-COVID times would have taken years.

Pennsylvania seems to produce top healthcare executives like it does quarterbacks and Tom Zenty is no exception to that tradition. Zenty, 57, is president...

Perhaps it’s not surprising that Christine Cassel, MD, pioneered the program called Choosing Wisely. Earning an undergraduate degree in philosophy at the University of...

When Tina Freese Decker was growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, chatting about the weather was serious business. Her meteorologist father had cofounded a...

Dr. Karen DeSalvo is a physician whose 20-year career has focused on improving access to affordable, high quality care for all people, especially vulnerable...

I f an individual could be an epicenter, Paul Tang, MD, would be that person for healthcare in the United States. His day job...

Eugene A. Woods, MBA, MHA, FACHE, is president and chief executive officer of Atrium Health, one of the most comprehensive and highly integrated not-for-profit...

It’s not surprising Don Wegmiller was elected to the Healthcare Hall of Fame this year. The honor crowns an already brilliant career that enters...

I t’s hard to believe Michael Shabot, MD, had no early interest in medicine. But maybe it just had to get in line. “I...

When Dennis Murphy took his mother to the movie "Brooklyn" she said it was like watching her life on screen. Like the movie's protagonists,...