Healthcare Cannot Manage What It Cannot See

Cannabis as the First Signal in a New Framework for Healthcare Visibility

By Drudys Ledbetter, BSN, RN

A groundbreaking framework that redefines how healthcare sees, measures, and manages what matters most. Forewords by Dr. Deanna Sommers and Kimberly Roy

Cannabis is the first signal.

Healthcare Visibility is the framework.

Every day, healthcare professionals make clinical decisions using incomplete information.

Not because clinicians lack expertise.

Because healthcare systems cannot consistently recognize, document, organize, and act on everything that influences patient care.

Healthcare cannot manage what it cannot see.

Cannabis is one of the clearest examples.

Millions of Americans use cannabis, yet most healthcare organizations still lack standardized approaches for asking about use, documenting it consistently, interpreting its clinical relevance, and integrating that information into patient care. The result is unnecessary variation across medication reconciliation, perioperative planning, quality improvement, research, population health, and clinical decision-making.

This book is not about whether cannabis should be used as medicine.

It is about what healthcare can learn from one of the most common, yet least visible, patient behaviors in modern clinical practice.

Cannabis exposes a much larger systems challenge: important patient information often exists, but healthcare has not built consistent processes to recognize it, measure it, or operationalize it.

That challenge is what this book defines as Healthcare Visibility.

Drawing on nursing leadership, healthcare operations, public health, quality improvement, and clinical risk management, Drudys Ledbetter introduces Healthcare Visibility as a practical framework for transforming invisible patient information into safer care, stronger documentation, better clinical decisions, and more resilient healthcare systems.

Cannabis is simply the beginning.

What You'll Learn

Inside this book, you'll learn how healthcare organizations can:

• Improve patient disclosure and documentation practices

• Strengthen medication reconciliation and perioperative workflows

• Reduce documentation variability across the continuum of care

• Build governance structures for emerging patient behaviors

• Prepare clinicians and organizations for evolving standards of care

• Transform patient-generated information into actionable clinical intelligence

• Build the foundation for Healthcare Visibility across quality improvement, artificial intelligence, research, population health, and value-based care

Who This Book Is For

This book is written for healthcare leaders responsible for designing systems, improving quality, managing risk, and leading organizational transformation, including:

• Chief Nursing Officers

• Chief Medical Officers

• Quality and Patient Safety Leaders

• Risk Management and Compliance Executives

• Pharmacy Leaders

• Clinical Informatics and EHR Teams

• Population Health Executives

• Healthcare Administrators

• Health System Innovation Leaders

• Researchers and Healthcare Policy Professionals

• Graduate Nursing and Healthcare Administration Programs

Whether you lead nursing, medicine, quality, informatics, pharmacy, population health, or healthcare strategy, this book provides a practical framework for transforming invisible patient information into safer, more informed clinical decision-making.

About the Author

Drudys Ledbetter, BSN, RN is a nurse leader, public health researcher, and healthcare visibility strategist. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Project Destigmatize HealTHCare (PDH) and the Founder of MAC Vernet Consulting.

Her work focuses on helping healthcare organizations recognize, document, organize, and operationalize clinically meaningful information that has historically remained invisible within healthcare systems. Through research, education, and strategic consulting, she works with healthcare leaders to build the infrastructure needed for safer care, stronger documentation, and more informed decision-making.

Institutional & Bulk Orders

Healthcare organizations, academic medical centers, universities, consulting firms, healthcare associations, and professional organizations ordering 10 or more copies receive institutional pricing and priority fulfillment.

Ideal for:

• Executive leadership teams

• Quality and patient safety committees

• Nursing leadership development

• Graduate healthcare administration and nursing programs

• Hospital book clubs and leadership retreats

• Conference and speaker event distribution

For institutional pricing, contact:

Cannabis.MVConsulting@gmail.com

Product Details

Paperback: $88

Hardcover: $144

Publication Date: August 2026

Signed copies available while supplies last.

This is a pre-order. Payment is collected at checkout, and all books will ship upon release in August 2026.