The Field Guide to Leading in Health Care is designed to be practical and actionable, exploring the essential traits and skills of healthcare leaders, strategies for overcoming obstacles, and effective interventions to drive lasting impact. The Field Guide recognizes that there is no single formula for leadership success in healthcare, but research and practice consistently show that strong teams, shared responsibility, cultures of safety, and patient-centered decision-making matter across every healthcare setting.
A Field Guide to Leading in Health Care
Healthcare is advancing at an unprecedented pace with breakthroughs reshaping what is possible for patient care. This Field Guide recognizes that there is no single formula for leadership success in healthcare, but evidence consistently shows that strong teams, shared responsibility, cultures of safety, and patient-centered decision-making matter across every healthcare setting.
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Hospitals increasingly rely on AI to guide patient care, but hidden configuration choices determine how these tools operate and whose needs they prioritize. New research shows AI embeds trade-offs into care delivery and calls for transparency and multidisciplinary oversight to ensure those decisions align with clinical judgment and organizational values.
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High-reliability organizations like aircraft carriers operate under extreme conditions, yet consistently avoid catastrophic failure. JHU Carey Professors Christopher Myers and Kathleen Sutcliffe show that performance is not driven by individual brilliance alone, but by systems that prioritize shared awareness, communication, and coordinated action.
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Drawing on insights from CIL Faculty Director Christopher Myers, this AOM Today article reveals how declining reimbursements are forcing rural hospitals into difficult tradeoffs that shape access for Medicaid and uninsured patients, while testing leaders’ ability to navigate uncertainty and ethical complexity to sustain care.