Operations

When healthcare leaders do not clearly set direction, define performance expectations, create a patient focus and demonstrate clear and visible practice values and ethics, physicians and other employees are likely to invent their own ideas as to what needs to be done and how to accomplish it.

To help you find great stories, here's our occasional wrap-up of engaging healthcare pieces.

Leaders, providers and vendors shared top insights into healthcare news on Twitter.

Cardiac surgeon David Torchiana tapped to replace outgoing leader Gary Gottlieb.

Lower revenue makes tracking costs even more important for these smaller healthcare facilities.

John Mackey also suggests weight loss and nutrition camps for employees and customers, marketed as a weekend retreats.

The way hospitals create their annual budgets could be changing amid reforms, as some are beginning to see the benefits of leaning on business intelligence during the process.

An anesthesiologist in Massachusetts could increase his or her salary by 61 percent by relocating to Wisconsin, according to a new report by physician social networking site Doximity.

The fundamental transformation is to refocus provision of care from "reactive" to "proactive."

The gift — the second $50 million grant in two years — will help fund an eight-care complex in Philadelphia.