The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced that it wants to ban the inclusion of medical debt data in credit reports to lessen the negative impact of medical debt on credit scores and improve financial outcomes for consumers.
Though well-intentioned, the CFPB's medical debt credit reporting ban would severely inhibit the activities of medical collection companies who partner with healthcare providers to collect outstanding medical accounts. It also could have
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When Clinicians Complain About Wi-Fi, Your FQHC Needs to Take Notice
It’s hard to imagine, but it’s true: Wi-Fi-enabled devices didn’t go mainstream until 2004, when the first devices (cellphones, personal data assistants, and TVs) hit the market.
Fast forward two decades, and can you imagine work or home life without Wi-Fi access, well, everywhere? Just like electricity, water, and natural gas, internet access has moved well beyond a nice-to-have to a necessity. We just expect it to be there and to work.
But unlike other utilities that have direct pipes
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Empowering the Aging Population with Tech-Driven Care in 2025
By 2030, one in six people will be 60 years old or over, increasing the demand for care and intensifying the burden on an already strained healthcare system. These pressures require healthcare leaders to identify more sustainable solutions that deliver optimal care to the growing senior population.
An AARP report found that technology use amongst older adults has significantly increased since the pandemic. This population’s adoption of digital solutions opens the door for more tools to reduce
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4 Tech-Enabled Strategies to Improve Patient Medication Adherence in 2025
Patient adherence has been a top priority in healthcare for quite some time. One in five new prescriptions are never filled, according to the CDC, and about half of those that are filled are taken with incorrect dosage, timing, or duration. The results can be higher hospital admission rates, suboptimal health outcomes, and increased morbidity, with the cost of medication non-adherence estimated at $100–$300 billion in the U.S. annually. Post-it Note reminders, pillbox routines, and 90-day
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3 Ways Healthcare Active Archive Benefits Hospitals and Health Systems
Not all health data archiving solutions are created equal.
Static health data archiving backups remain frozen in time and it’s often difficult to extract meaningful data from them. As technology advances, data formats change, rendering older formats inaccessible, consequently decreasing their usefulness.
Forward-thinking hospital and health system executives recognize the long-term value of their clinical, financial, and operational data. Instead of viewing health data archiving as
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Funding Challenges for Innovation in MedTech in 2025
In the MedTech sector, small and medium-sized organizations are the primary drivers of innovation, developing new technologies for diagnosing, monitoring, and treating various conditions. Despite their potential to transform patient care and enhance efficiency in healthcare environments, these companies face significant funding challenges. The high costs of development, complex regulatory pathways, and intense market competition create substantial barriers to attracting investors.
MedTech
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How Digital Twins Open The Door for Next-Gen Clinical Trials
Clinical trials have been the cornerstone of medical innovation for centuries, but as the effort continues to improve patient care and speed the development of new treatments and medicines, sticking with the same old trial processes is no longer an option.
Innovative technologies like digital twins and generative AI are transforming the healthcare landscape and expanding what’s possible for the future of medicine with next-gen clinical trials.
Beyond benefits associated with
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Sonographer Burnout: Top 7 Causes and How to Address Them
Burnout among sonographers is becoming an alarming reality, driven by the demanding nature of their work. Every day, they face the emotional burden of delivering difficult news to patients, often with little time to recover before moving on to the next case. Long shifts and high-stress environments only add to the strain, making it harder for them to maintain their well-being. To address this, it’s essential to understand the root causes. The key risk factors contributing to sonographer burnout
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AI Can Make Plastic Surgery Practices More Human
Eye contact and good desk-side manner have always been incredibly important in the plastic surgery specialty, where patients’ decisions can be heavy with emotion around the perception of their image. Even what some see as a “small touchup” like dermal fillers are huge decisions for others because it is a change in how they present themselves physically and then carry themselves emotionally.
The practice of plastic surgery is inherently human, in the most sentimental sense. But, as we
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HIPAA Compliance in the Age of Big Data: Ensuring Patient Privacy in Healthcare Data Analytics
As healthcare providers increasingly embrace big data, they find themselves at a crossroads: the challenge of using relevant data to improve patient care while ensuring the highest levels of privacy and compliance with regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Violations of HIPAA can result in reputation damage, loss of patient trust, and also severe penalties—up to $50,000 per violation, alongside potential criminal charges. These legal parameters are
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