The Federal Aviation Administration restricts how long commercial pilots can be in the air, mandates minimum rest between flights, and caps hours flown per month and per year. The science of fatigue played a large role in the development of these rules to protect pilots.
Fatigue isn’t the only factor in a pilot’s mental well-being. Imagine if, just before a long flight, they learned their best friend died. That kind of news could raise a person’s stress response in a measurable way.
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We Spent a Decade Filling EHRs. It’s Time to Make Them Pay Us Back.
A few years ago, a physician I worked with told me that her young daughter had started greeting her at the door with a question: “Mommy, how many charts do you have to finish today?” Her daughter had learned that the higher the number, the less of her mother she was going to get that night.
That story has stayed with me through more than two decades in clinical informatics, because it captures something the data has been telling us for years. Recent research from the American Medical
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If Everyone Claims to Accelerate Clinical Trials, Why Are We Still Falling Behind?
The clinical trials industry has never had more tools, data, or innovation aimed at accelerating timelines. In fact, if you walk the floor of any industry event you’ll see “acceleration” everywhere. It’s in the messaging, the booths, the product demos, and the promises. From AI-driven feasibility models to precision targeting, digital recruitment strategies, and decentralized trial technologies, the system appears more advanced and faster than ever. Yet approximately 80–85% of clinical trials
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Healthcare’s Education Access Problem Won’t Fix Itself
With around 1.5 million open job openings listed each month and hundreds of thousands of projected shortages across specialties, health systems need to strengthen their talent pipelines and incentivize workers to step into more specialized roles — fast.
The healthcare professionals best positioned to step into hard-to-fill roles are already on staff, yet few will take the next step. For many, finances stand in the way.
Even with tuition assistance programs in place, many
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Capability vs. Aspiration: The New Litmus Test for AI in Healthcare
Walk the floor of any healthcare conference today, and the energy around artificial intelligence is palpable. The potential of the technology is genuinely transformative, and hospital boards will always be (understandably) eager to modernize their workflows. But as the market floods with new solutions, navigating the sheer volume of vendor promises has become an increasingly complex task for healthcare leaders.
Look under the surface of many recent tech announcements, and an acute observer
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The Golden Record: How Health Plan Leaders Can Navigate the Future of Agentic, Actionable Navigation
Connecting consumers with in-network, clinically-appropriate, and high-value care providers via AI-ready architecture
As health plans work to meet rising consumer demands and deliver a more personalized care experience, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more embedded in the consumer digital experience from the call center to the authenticated portal. However, in the context of care access the promise of AI can't be realized without addressing challenges with inaccurate and inconsistent
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The Three-Tiered Trust Strategy: A Twist on Standard Software Testing for Healthcare AI
Every healthcare organization has been through the ordeal of a major software deployment: months of prep work, weeks of testing and calibration during development, hours of user training, and a big sigh of relief at rollout. Along the way, they’ve also set up regression testing to guarantee updates don’t break anything, as well as monitoring to make sure everything continues to work in production.
Development testing, regression testing, and monitoring, it’s a tried-and-true formula that
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Healthcare’s Incident Response Confidence Problem
A recent survey revealed a striking statistic: only 6% of healthcare cybersecurity leaders feel fully confident in their organization's security program. For anyone in this industry, while that number stings, it doesn't surprise.
Confidence in cybersecurity is not a meaningless metric. It reflects whether leaders believe they have the people, processes, and technology in place to detect, contain, and recover from a cyber incident before it costs them data, time, operational downtime, or, at
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The Hidden Risk in CMS Compliance: Why Health Plans Can’t Treat Prior Authorization APIs and Claims Attachments as Separate Projects
Most health plans approach regulatory deadlines in a sequential order. They establish separate implementation strategies and initiatives, prioritizing each program based on the looming compliance date. While this methodology is understandable, it also introduces inherent risks for rules that share workflow, data, governance and vendor dependencies. The uncertainty is not technical incompatibility, but rather organizational separation.
This concern is top of mind for healthcare organizations
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Brain Health’s Infrastructure Era: Proving Clinical Outcomes with Integrated Neuromotor Tracking
The senior living operator runs brain health programming for hundreds of residents and still can't say, with confidence, which ones are genuinely improving. The rehabilitation provider clears a patient to return to activity based on symptoms, not on whether the underlying deficit is actually resolved. The sports organization has to decide, in real time, whether an athlete is truly ready to perform under pressure, often with little more than instinct and a stopwatch. The pharmaceutical company
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