How LifePoint Health Is Combating Nursing Workforce Challenges with Scalability in 2026
While CNOs try to build a more sustainable workforce, tightening budgets are putting more strain on health systems and higher costs of education are making it harder for people to become nurses or to advance their nursing careers.
5 Predictions for Healthcare AI in 2026
Hartford HealthCare’s Barry Stein says healthcare leaders need to see AI as part of an ecosystem. And it will only work in healthcare if it all the right safeguards are in place.
Patient Safety Predictions for 2026, Part 2
PSQH reached out to experts throughout healthcare to get their predictions for what will happen in patient safety and healthcare quality in 2026. We received so many predictions this time around that we’re breaking it up into two parts. Here’s Part 2 of what they had to say.
Providence’s CIO Looks for Humanity in Healthcare Innovation
Goswami sees today’s tech trends, from AI to virtual care to digital health, as having the potential to bring humanity back to healthcare. But these new tools have to work for both patients and providers, bringing them face-to-face rather than shunting them onto different pathways.
How Can We Justify AI’s Cost?
The industry’s struggle to control rampant costs is forcing executives to dig more deeply into their technology spending habits – especially where and how much they want to invest in AI. And that’s forcing them to confront different definitions of ROI.
What’s on the Agenda for PAs in 2026?
For 2026, the CMO of the American Academy of Physician Associates sees ongoing PA trends as well as new opportunities for PAs in areas such as technology adoption.
Healthcare’s Viability Tests in 2026 Put a Premium on Enterprise Risk Management
Ongoing and new disruptions in 2026 will keep the pressure on, putting a premium on the ability to successfully anticipate and adapt to the pressures of an increasingly risky environment.
Tampa General Hospital CMO Offers Healthcare Predictions for 2026
For 2026, the top clinical officer at Tampa General Hospital foresees healthcare trends in care delivery, complexity of patients, AI tool adoption, and financial pressures.
NCQA Chief to Tech Execs: Invest More in Primary Care
Peggy O’Kane, who is retiring from the National Committee on Quality Assurance at the end of this year, says innovation and technology should be used to support the primary care provider, but too often is being deployed to siphon away services or give consumers other platforms to access care.
How Excluding Nursing from Professional Degree Program Loan Eligibility Will Impact Nurses and Patients
These policy changes will have a massive impact on the healthcare system, from a personal to a systemic level.