Books about leading in healthcare and about how the system works: hospitals, health systems, care teams and the experience of patients. Authors include physicians, nurses, executives and patients who pushed for change.
This list holds 16 books published between 2017 and 2026, 2 with an audiobook edition. A book is on it only when leading in healthcare is a central subject of the book, judged from the book's own description, not when it comes up in passing. The most-rated on Amazon come first.
Chris Kresser
The world is facing the greatest healthcare crisis it has ever seen. Chronic disease is shortening our lifespan, destroying our quality of life, bankrupting governments, and threatening the health of future generations. Sadly, conventional medicine, with its…
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James Maskell
For all too many dedicated physicians, stuck in a cycle of seven-minute patient visits and production line healing, medicine has become a frustrating vocation. Furthermore, the current epidemic of chronic illness demands a new care standard that can break…
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Transforming Health Outcomes Together
James Maskell · 2020
Imagine if there was a single, elegant solution to the biggest challenges facing healthcare: chronic disease, escalating costs, physician shortages, care access and affordability, physician burnout, loneliness, and mental health. In his second book, James…
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How to Solve the Great American Healthcare Rip-off
Brad Spellberg · 2020
As Americans, we spend trillions of dollars more on healthcare than anyone else in the world, yet we have shorter lifespans. Patients are crushed by medical debt, sometimes forced to choose between paying for medications, rent, or food. Healthcare workers are…
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A Medical Provider's Guide for Humanizing Healthcare
Larry Benz · 2026
Experience the golden standard of healthcare today. As a medical professional, you operate in a more disconnected environment than your predecessors. Compliance standards and excessive documentation keep you in front of screens instead of patients. Low…
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William Queale · 2023 · Audiobook
Americans are suffering from chronic disease, and our healthcare system can’t save us. Sometimes it makes us worse. In fact, we don’t have a healthcare system in this country, we have a four-trillion-dollar sickcare system that profits off people struggling…
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Jeb Dunkelberger · 2021
Trillions of dollars spent every year, billions wasted, and all of it at the expense of American families. This reality is the American healthcare economy. For you, an employee of the healthcare ecosystem, the current state of the healthcare economy poses an…
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David McDonald
If you're not starting with the patient you're starting in the wrong place. The value of a patient-centered approach to healthcare design and strategy is clear, yet many healthcare professionals lack a fundamental understanding of the principles that foster…
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Optimizing Physician Leadership to Transform Healthcare
Jack Cochran · 2018
Physicians undertake a noble, demanding profession, improving patients' lives. But the rapidly changing world of healthcare, and the complex knowledge and technology involved, challenges this calling. Physicians need to be healers, confidants, and caregivers…
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David Kashmer
The statistics are alarming. Each year thousands of patients in hospitals and treatment facilities die or are seriously injured through errors caused by faulty care systems, outmoded surgical approaches, and medical-process failures. But there is a proven…
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Max Westerman
When it comes to health and medical innovation, Sinai Health System of Chicago is one of the most respected names in the game. From its origin in 1919 as a sixty-bed hospital, to today, where its numerous arms provide a variety of equitable care and community…
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Scott Kashman · 2017
A healthcare organization needs to be more than capable nurses and doctors, sterile operating theaters, a business office, and an emergency room. Every successful medical organization should be an optimal healing environment. This holistic, person-centered…
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Why Patients Leave Confused and the Clinical Operating System That Fixes It
Joseph A. Rotella · 2026
The biggest breakthroughs come from rediscovering what we've forgotten. Despite remarkable advances in diagnosis, treatment, and medical technology, one essential part of healthcare has quietly been left behind: ensuring every patient leaves with a clear…
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Joseph Saba · 2023
Are we ready for the next global health threat? COVID-19 opened the world’s eyes to the inadequacies of our global healthcare system, and it’s on us to change what happens next. Through personal accounts gathered during his nearly forty years of experience in…
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Emmet Scott · 2021 · Audiobook
Dental practice owners and their teams often dream of growing a successful dental group or DSO. Then complexity sets in. Today, successful practitioners have to survive the world of business: Marketing, Messaging, HR, Finance, Compliance. It's a lot for any…
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Nabil Othman · 2021
If the apocalypse is going to happen, now seems like the time. From hybrid killer bees to domestic terrorism, catastrophe bingo has displaced baseball as America’s pastime. No one seems to have a strategy. Until now. Like our modern world, the discipline of…
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