Micro-learning for healthcare leaders
A working library of practice tests, workbooks, dashboards and book companions from Kelly Emrick, DHSc, PhD, MBA, BSRT(ARRT)R, built to turn evidence-based leadership and population-health research into something you can actually use.
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Index Research Papers
The full index of published research papers and executive reports behind the tools on this site.
Research & ReferenceIndex Micro-Tests Index
Every practice test in one place, grouped by subject and length.
Leadership TestsPractice Test Hospital Financial Quiz
Test your grip on operating margin, days cash on hand and the ratios boards actually ask about.
FinanceModel Predictive Leadership Model
A working model for anticipating team and service-line problems before they surface in the numbers.
Evidence-Based LeadershipPractice Test Leadership Test
A 50-question evidence-based leadership assessment with scored domains.
Leadership TestsPractice Test Test Models
Practice items drawn from the leadership models used across the library.
Leadership TestsAnalysis MRI Operational Analysis
Slot utilisation, add-on pressure and throughput analysed against operating reality.
Radiology & MRIAnalysis MRI Workflow Analysis
Where the minutes go between arrival and first sequence, and what each one costs.
Radiology & MRIPractice Test Radiology Practice Exam
Registry-style practice items across positioning, safety, physics and patient care.
Radiology & MRIPractice Test Radiology Technologist Practice Test
A technologist-level exam built for ARRT preparation and annual competency review.
Radiology & MRIModel System Strain Model
Models how demand, staffing and scanner hours interact before a department tips into backlog.
Radiology & MRIPractice Test Population Health Leadership Tests
Assessment items covering determinants, risk stratification and community health strategy.
Population HealthCalculator KyphoLift Risk Calculator
Estimates positioning-related risk exposure for kyphotic patients in the MRI suite.
KyphoLift SeriesModel KyphoLift Value & Risk Model
Pairs clinical risk reduction against acquisition cost in a single decision view.
KyphoLift SeriesModel KyphoLift: Cost Modeling
Builds the cost side of the case: device, training, repeat scans and lost slot time.
KyphoLift SeriesAnalysis KyphoLift Scenario Analysis
Runs best, expected and worst case adoption scenarios side by side.
KyphoLift SeriesFramework Radiology Agentic AI
What agentic AI can and cannot be trusted with inside a radiology workflow.
AI & GovernanceCalculator KyphoLift ROI Assistant
Guided ROI walkthrough for leaders building a purchase case.
KyphoLift SeriesAnalysis KyphoLift ROI Analysis
The full return analysis with payback period and sensitivity ranges.
KyphoLift SeriesCalculator KyphoLift ROI
The quick calculator: enter volume and repeat rate, get payback in months.
KyphoLift SeriesReference Game Theory & Leadership
Why cooperation, signalling and repeated play explain more executive behaviour than org charts do.
Evidence-Based LeadershipReference Top 10 Healthcare Leadership Skills Ranked
The ten skills ranked by the strength of the evidence behind them, not by popularity.
Evidence-Based LeadershipReference Evidence-Based Healthcare Leadership
The core reference: what it means to lead from evidence rather than instinct.
Evidence-Based LeadershipDashboard Leadership Skills Dashboard
Score yourself across the ranked skills and see where the development gap sits.
Evidence-Based LeadershipReference Population Health Bible: Volume 1
Volume 1 companion: determinants, measurement and the economics of prevention.
Population HealthReference Population Health Bible
The book companion hub, with chapter summaries and linked practice material.
Population HealthPractice Test Population Health: Practice Tests
Chapter-aligned practice items for readers working through the Bible.
Population HealthTool Prostate Screening Tool
Walks a screening decision through age, risk and shared decision-making guidance.
Population HealthTool Prostate Screening Plan Tool
Turns a screening decision into a dated follow-up plan you can hand to a patient.
Population HealthReference Evidence-Based Leadership
Foundations: the four sources of evidence and how leaders weigh them against each other.
Evidence-Based LeadershipWorkbook Evidence-Based Leadership Workbook
Chapter 1 of the EBHL workbook, with exercises you complete as you read.
Evidence-Based LeadershipStudy Evidence-Based Healthcare Leadership Gap
The measured distance between what leaders say they use and what they actually use.
Evidence-Based LeadershipDashboard SDOH Leadership Dashboard
Social determinants translated into figures a service line can act on.
Population HealthReference Fiscal Fitness in Healthcare
The book companion: reading a healthcare income statement without a finance degree.
FinanceDashboard Financial Modeling Interactive Dashboard
Build a service-line model live and watch margin move as assumptions change.
FinanceDashboard 100 Healthcare Financial Benchmarks
One hundred benchmarks with definitions, so you know what good looks like before the meeting.
FinanceReference Radiology Leadership Reference Guides Volumes 1 & 2
Both reference volumes: operations, staffing, quality and the executive conversation.
Radiology & MRITool Evidence-Based Leadership Tools & Assessment
The applied toolkit with a self-assessment attached to each instrument.
Evidence-Based LeadershipFramework AI Healthcare Governance Framework
A governance structure for clinical AI: who approves, who monitors and who is accountable.
AI & GovernanceTool Evidence-Based Healthcare Leadership Tools
Working instruments you can take straight into a leadership meeting.
Evidence-Based LeadershipReference Self-Talk: A Personal Journey
The companion to The Voice Within, on the internal narrative leaders carry to work.
Self & WellnessTracker The 30-Day Self-Talk Practice Tracker
Thirty days of short daily entries with a visible pattern at the end.
Self & WellnessReference Critic to Coach
Reframing the internal critic into something that actually improves performance.
Self & WellnessTracker 3 Month Fitness Plan
A twelve-week structure for leaders who keep putting their own health last.
Self & WellnessDashboard MRI Safety Dashboard
Zone control, screening compliance and incident tracking in one operational view.
Radiology & MRIDashboard Radiology Leadership Executive Dashboard
The executive-level cut: volume, turnaround, staffing and quality on one screen.
Radiology & MRIDashboard Systemwide Radiology Executive Dashboard
Rolls multiple sites into a single systemwide performance picture.
Radiology & MRIDashboard Radiology Executive Dashboard
Single-site executive reporting with the metrics that drive the monthly review.
Radiology & MRIWhitepaper Radiology Shared Services Whitepaper
The case for and against consolidating radiology support functions across a system.
Research & ReferenceModel Radiology Intake Workflow
Maps the front door from order to arrival and shows where orders fall out.
Radiology & MRIModel Radiology AI Governance Model
The radiology-specific governance model: validation, drift monitoring and escalation.
AI & GovernanceDashboard Radiology Executive Governance Dashboard
Tracks every deployed algorithm against its approval and monitoring status.
AI & GovernanceTool Patient Satisfaction Tools
Instruments for measuring imaging experience beyond the standard survey.
Radiology & MRIAnalysis MRI Analysis: Kansas City Advanced Imaging
A real outpatient MRI centre analysed end to end, with the numbers shown.
Radiology & MRIReference MRI Protocols Study Guide
Protocol selection and sequence logic organised for study rather than reference lookup.
Radiology & MRIAnalysis MRI Breakeven Analysis
The scan count an outpatient magnet has to reach before it earns anything.
FinanceDashboard MRI Time, Motion & Function
Time and motion study of the MRI suite, with function mapped onto each interval.
Radiology & MRIDashboard MRI Time & Motion Dashboard
The interactive version: adjust intervals and watch daily capacity respond.
Radiology & MRIModel Radiology Staff Engagement Model
An engagement model built for shift-based imaging teams, not office populations.
Radiology & MRIFramework Healthcare Leadership Operating System
The full operating system: cadence, decisions, measures and accountability in one structure.
Evidence-Based LeadershipTool Leadership Development Studio
Build a development plan for a leader on your team, step by step.
Evidence-Based LeadershipDashboard Radiology Leadership Dashboard
Department-level leadership metrics with drill-down by modality.
Radiology & MRIDashboard Radiology Operations Dashboard
Daily operations: schedule fill, no-shows, add-ons and room turnaround.
Radiology & MRIReference The Calhoun Effect in Modern Healthcare
Applying Calhoun’s density findings to hospital crowding, burnout and system behaviour.
Research & ReferenceWorkbook Radiology Leadership Module 1
Module 1 of the leadership curriculum, with exercises and an end-of-module check.
Radiology & MRIReference The Art of Radiology Leadership
The judgement side of the role: the parts no dashboard will ever show you.
Radiology & MRIReference The Calhoun Effect
The original behavioural sink work and why it still explains crowded systems.
Research & ReferenceDashboard Multi-Hospital Performance Project
Comparative performance across a multi-hospital imaging network.
Radiology & MRIDashboard MRI Safety Dashboard II
The second-generation safety build with expanded screening and incident logic.
Radiology & MRIModel Radiology Patient Intake Model
Reliability model for the imaging front door, from order entry to arrival.
Radiology & MRIFramework Radiology Staff Retention
What actually holds technologists in a department, ranked by evidence strength.
Radiology & MRIReference Building a Successful Outpatient Imaging Center
Siting, staffing, payer mix and equipment: the decisions that determine viability.
Radiology & MRIReference Emotional Intelligence for Leaders
EI treated as a measurable leadership competency rather than a personality trait.
Evidence-Based LeadershipTool Sepsis Tracking Tool
Bundle compliance and time-to-antibiotic tracking against the measure definition.
Population HealthReference The Quantum Brain
On attention, cognitive load and how leaders lose the capacity to think well.
Self & WellnessReference Evidence-Based Healthcare Leadership II
The second volume, extending the framework into service-line decision-making.
Evidence-Based LeadershipReference Quieting the Cognitive Storm
Practical methods for settling a mind that will not stop running scenarios.
Self & WellnessTracker Radiology Compliance Tracker
Track accreditation, credentialing and safety requirements against their due dates.
Radiology & MRIModel The Emrick SPO Model
Structure, process and outcomes applied as a working operating model for imaging.
Radiology & MRIModel Healthcare Financial Modeling
How to build a defensible financial model for a healthcare service line.
FinanceReference The Happy Patient
What patient experience research actually supports, and what it does not.
Population HealthModel KCAI Predictive Financial Model
A predictive model built on real outpatient imaging volume and payer data.
FinanceDashboard Radiology Leadership Academy
The structured curriculum hub, with modules, progress and assessment.
Radiology & MRIModel Value-Based Care Model
How risk, attribution and quality measures fit together in a value contract.
Population HealthReference Understanding Value-Based Care
The plain-language explanation of value-based care for operational leaders.
Population HealthFramework Interactive Model Build Framework
The method behind these tools: turning a research paper into something you can operate.
Research & ReferenceReference Healthcare Polymarket Outcome Strategies
Prediction-market thinking applied to healthcare policy and payment outcomes.
FinanceDashboard Predictive Analytics Learning Lab
Learn predictive analytics by running the models rather than reading about them.
Research & ReferencePlanner Patient Intake Performance Scenario Planner
Plan intake staffing and slot design against scenarios before you commit to them.
Radiology & MRIDashboard Radiology Patient Satisfaction Dashboard
Experience scores tracked against the operational drivers that move them.
Radiology & MRIFramework Healthcare 4.0: Future Proofing Healthcare
Automation, connectivity and analytics framed as a single system transition.
Research & ReferenceReference Determinants of the Patient Experience
The determinants that predict experience scores, separated from the ones that do not.
Population HealthReferenceNew System Level Thinking
Seeing the whole system: why local fixes so often move the problem somewhere else.
Evidence-Based LeadershipModelNew Sepsis Triage Model
A triage model for early sepsis recognition and escalation.
Population HealthPractice TestNew MR Staff Safety Compliance Test
Annual MR safety competency check for staff working in and around Zone IV.
Radiology & MRIAnalysisNew Remote MR/CT Scanning
What remote scanning changes about staffing, safety and cost, examined honestly.
Radiology & MRIFrameworkNew The Five Horsemen
The five leadership failures that dismantle a department, with a self-assessment.
Evidence-Based LeadershipReferenceNew Statistics for Healthcare Professionals
The statistics a healthcare leader actually needs, explained without the notation.
Research & ReferenceDashboardNew Aging of Americans
Where the 65-plus population is concentrated, and what that means for capacity.
Population HealthDashboardNew Primary Healthcare in America
Primary care physician distribution and the counties that have run out of it.
Population HealthDashboardNew Leadership Accountability
What happens to workforce accountability when leadership breaks its side of the compact.
Evidence-Based LeadershipDashboardNew Leadership Tenure Fallacy
Why years in seat predicts far less about leadership performance than we assume.
Evidence-Based LeadershipDashboardNew Measure What Creates Value
What patients are really paying for: resolution, access and convenience, measured.
Population HealthDashboardNew Radiology Site-Neutral Payments
Modelling the CY 2027 site-neutral imaging proposals against a real revenue base.
FinanceDashboardNew The Great Healthcare Knowledge Exit
The experience leaving the building as the workforce ages, quantified.
Evidence-Based LeadershipToolNew KyphoLift Purchase Agreement
Builds the written purchase justification, with the evidence and the numbers attached.
KyphoLift SeriesCalculatorNew Outpatient MRI Economic Viability Calculator
Enter volume, payer mix and cost base, and see whether the magnet survives.
FinanceDashboardNew Healthcare Spending
Where United States healthcare spending actually goes, by category and payer.
FinanceCalculatorNew Radiology Department P&L Calculator
Build a radiology department profit and loss statement line by line, and see what each assumption does to the bottom line.
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Data analytics lab: dashboards, calculators, and decision tools for healthcare executives.
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Long-form essays on healthcare leadership, AI, radiology operations, and applied analytics.
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