Discover Data Analytics with Dr. Emrick

Model Design by Kelly Emrick, DHSc, PhD, MBA

The following Healthcare Leadership 2026 and Beyond Readiness Dashboard is a scenario-based decision tool that translates the five imperatives from Dr. Emrick’s research paper. It turns the data into a measurable operating picture that leaders can use to prioritize work, stress-test strategy, and document governance decisions. It does three things at once: it translates real-world pressures (coverage loss, inflation, outpatient shift, turnover) and leadership signals (workforce experience, technology utility, interoperability and value-based execution, capacity force multipliers, and consumer trust) into normalized 0–100 domain scores, it combines those domain scores into a single readiness index with clear bands (Strong, Watch, At Risk), and it produces an actionable interpretation that points leaders toward the highest-leverage constraints instead of spreading effort across everything. To use it, select the scenario preset that best matches your environment, then adjust the sliders to reflect your current state using data from HR, operations, finance, EHR analytics, and patient experience reporting. As you move the inputs, the model recalculates instantly, allowing you to see which domains drive readiness up or down, compare best-case versus stress-case conditions, and identify the top strengths to protect and the constraints to fix first. Once you settle on a “most likely” scenario, use the Results and Action Playbook views to translate the lowest-scoring domains into concrete near-term actions, assign owners, and define the improvement signal you expect to observe in 30–90 days. Finally, export or copy the JSON to create a decision log of the assumptions and scores, then print a one-page brief to support weekly readiness huddles, monthly strategy reviews, or board-level discussions where you need a disciplined, repeatable way to explain what is changing, why it matters, and what you are doing about it.