Jared Wolf

🚨 Today is AI Appreciation Day — but in healthcare, it’s more than a hashtag. It’s a wake-up call. We’re not celebrating sci-fi. We’re confronting the fact that: 🧠 AI is already diagnosing patients faster than we can chart. 📊 Admin AI is streamlining workflows we’ve been manually patching for decades. 🕒 And yet... many healthcare organizations are still stuck in “pilot purgatory.” . Clinical and operational leaders must now ask: ✅ How are we leveraging AI in triage, scheduling, compliance, and denials? ✅ Are we preparing our teams, workflows, and culture to adapt? ✅ Who’s bridging the gap between AI tools and real-world execution? That’s where I step in. With 20+ years leading operational transformation in healthcare—and now working at the intersection of execution and AI—I help practices translate innovation into results. 🧩 AI can be the engine. 📈 But execution is the driver. 💡 Let’s make sure you have both. If you’re a healthcare leader wondering how to start, scale, or optimize your AI strategy—clinically or administratively—let’s talk. #AIAppreciationDay #HealthcareInnovation #AIinHealthcare #HealthTech #Leadership #ExecutionMatters #DigitalHealth #HealthcareOperations #ClinicalAI #AdministrativeAI #FutureOfHealthcare #BridgingTheGap #innovation #love MGMA Myra McHugh, MHA Kathy Graham, MSN, MHA, ACM-RN, CPHQ Patrick Taylor, MBA Patricia Kirkpatrick MJ RN CPHQ Lindsay Racey Bill Breen, DSc, FACHE Lloyd Mangnall Richard Yee Michael Nolen, AEMT, MHA, FACHE Tom Dahlborg Cindy Hoover MHA, BSN, RN Sandra Bailey,FACHE Stephen Abishek Christopher Hart Alex Hafner Amy Stricklin Amit Dhir Sophia Walker Henry Heather Gardner

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Standardization isn’t about control. It’s about outcomes. In healthcare supply chain, “standardization” often gets a bad reputation. It’s seen as limiting choice or taking control away from clinicians but that’s not the truth. When standardization is done poorly, it feels top-down. It creates resistance instead of results, and teams lose trust in the process. I’ve seen both sides... clinicians who feel unheard and supply chain teams frustrated that their work is misunderstood. Everyone wants what’s best for the patient, but alignment gets lost in translation. Smarter standardization starts with collaboration. When data drives the conversation, communication builds trust, and wins are celebrated along the way, everyone moves forward together. Swipe through this carousel to learn the 5 steps to smarter standardization that build alignment instead of resistance. If your organization is ready to standardize with strategy, not force, let’s connect. Book a Discovery Call Now. Click the link in bio. #HealthcareSupplyChain #ClinicalIntegration #Standardization #StrategicSourcing #Leadership #HospitalImpact

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Avasant’s research shows that reducing clerical workload with ambient AI scribes significantly improves clinician well-being and restores focus to patient care. 🔗 Learn more in the report. https://hubs.ly/Q03Td-cl0

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Health systems are rarely tested by a single disruption. More often, pressure accumulates quietly — rising supply expense, workforce constraints, reimbursement compression, and growing expectations to do more with less. Over time, these forces reveal an important truth: Organizational resilience is less about reacting to events and more about how the system was designed to operate in the first place. Leadership teams increasingly face a defining question — not whether disruption will occur, but whether their operating model is durable enough to absorb sustained pressure. Supply chain sits closer to that answer than many realize, serving as both an operational backbone and an early indicator of organizational strain. Durable organizations are built intentionally. And in the current environment, durability has become a leadership responsibility. #HealthcareLeadership #HealthcareSupplyChain #HealthSystemStrategy

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Less is More in MSSP Now that the 2024 MSSP results have been out for a few weeks, one trend stands out clearly - smaller ACOs continue to outperform their larger counterparts in per-beneficiary savings. When reviewing the 2024 data, ACOs with fewer than 35,000 assigned beneficiaries consistently generated higher per-beneficiary savings compared to larger organizations. While scale has its advantages; broader infrastructure, diversified risk pools, and negotiation leverage, it can often comes at the cost of clinical precision and local accountability. Smaller ACOs, on the other hand, tend to maintain tighter physician alignment, faster feedback loops, and deeper visibility into care coordination opportunities. As MSSP continues to evolve, it’s a reminder that bigger isn’t always better. Success in value-based care often comes from focus, engagement, and agility - not just scale.

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New Blog: The Weak Link in Healthcare Supply Chain Management One of the most persistent—and misunderstood—barriers to performance in healthcare supply chains? Item categorization. And not because teams aren’t trying. It’s because most are chasing a one-size-fits-all solution that doesn’t exist. In this post, I explore: ✏️ Why categorization efforts often fail ✏️ What can we learn from how pharmacy handles layered classification ✏️ How to align diverse needs with a more strategic approach If you're still fighting to make your item master work for everyone, this is for you. 📖 Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gQtw-6wm #healthcare #supplychain #operations #erp #consulting #data #ValuFoundry ValuFoundry

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Sometimes the biggest barrier to optimization isn’t data or resources... it’s fear. Fear that improving a process might look like admitting we “weren’t doing it right” before. Fear that asking questions implies someone dropped the ball. But the reality is this: Most of us inherit processes. They work. They got patients through tough moments. And that matters. Working, however, isn’t the same as optimized. Healthcare evolves. Reimbursement rules change. Documentation standards shift. What was once sufficient may no longer reflect the true complexity, risk, or cost of care being delivered today. That’s especially true in ECMO. Financial optimization around ECMO billing and coding isn’t about pointing fingers or rewriting history. It’s about ensuring today’s care is accurately captured, supported, and reimbursed so programs can remain sustainable, staff can be supported, and patients can continue to have access to this life-saving therapy. Moving forward isn’t an admission of failure. It’s a sign of maturity, stewardship, and leadership. Optimization says: We care enough to do better...not because we were wrong, but because we know more now. Let me know if I can tell you more about how Integration Health's ECMO Financial Assessments are helping hospitals optimize the financial stability and resilience of their ECMO programs. #ecmo #ecmospecialist #perfusion #perfusionist #criticalcare #cvicu #ecpr #icunurse #respiratory #respiratorytherapist

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Not all data is created equal. Most teams track way too much. They drown in data and miss what really matters. In a large company like Amazon, the more metrics the better, because those operations are incredibly complex. In a smaller startup you need to keep things much more focused. Otherwise you'll lose the chance to make real progress and be stuck fighting all the daily fires. Here’s how I focus my teams: Define the Big 3. What are the three metrics that tell us how well we’re executing on strategy? Establish leading indicators. Don’t wait for monthly reports to find out something’s off. Track real-time metrics that predict outcomes. Review, refine, repeat. Metrics are only powerful if they’re accurate and relevant. Every quarter, we assess what’s still valuable and what’s just noise. Execution is a lot simpler when everyone’s looking at the same scorecard. The fewer metrics, the clearer the path forward. #Execution #MetricsMatter #DataDriven #OpsLeadership

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