Just 15% of health system CEOs are women. Here are 4 ways to change that.

Although women make up a large portion of the U.S. health care workforce, men still hold most leadership positions in health care organizations, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open.

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Study details

For the study, researchers from Ohio State University collected data from 161 U.S. health systems with at least five affiliated hospitals and 108 health insurance groups with at least 0.09% of the national market, along with each organization’s board of directors (BOD), between April 1 and May 31.

Using information from the organizations’ websites, the researchers determined the binary genders of the organizations’...