As 2026 begins, I’m seeing a clear shift in how care is delivered and how patients expect to participate in it. After years of incremental progress, the industry is finally moving in ways that truly empower patients, lower barriers for innovators, and relieve clinicians from administrative overload. The forces driving this change are unmistakable: AI agents, consumer-first care models, new entrepreneurial pathways, and the decentralization of traditional medical systems. Taken together,
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Beyond Reactivity: Integrating AI-Driven Home Safety for Aging in Place
Aging in America isn’t a niche issue—it’s a seismic shift. Within five years, one in five Americans will be 65 or older. By 2034, older adults will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history.1 This demographic flip is already reshaping households, businesses, and public policy.
One of the most urgent—and solvable—challenges is housing safety, particularly falls. Nearly 90% of older adults want to remain in their homes as they age.2 Yet, fewer than 10% of U.S. homes are
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Beyond Automation: Why the Future of Surgery Is “Performance-Guided,” Not Autonomous
Lately, I've been reading headlines about full autonomous surgery - claims that gallbladders can be removed without a human hand. It makes me wonder: is the operating room being handed over to machines?
The reality is complex - and more human than you might think.
While automation continues to advance, the true future of surgery lies not in removing the surgeon from the loop, but in equipping them with better tools to navigate it. That’s the principle behind Performance-Guided Surgery™: an
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The MAHA Paradox: How Medical Device Tariffs Undermine “Make America Healthy Again
The Trump Administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda recognizes a simple truth: the best way to improve our health is to empower people to understand and help manage their own care. Affordable medical devices make that possible.
Every day, Americans use this technology to check their blood pressure, track sleep, monitor heart rhythms, manage hearing loss, and more. These devices bring care into our homes, extend the reach of doctors, and help millions of people stay healthy
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Ending ‘Pajama Time’: How AI Redeploys Clinicians From Paperwork Back to Patients
Too many of us know the drill. After weeks or months of waiting, you finally land a doctor’s appointment. You sit in the exam room, anxious. When the doctor walks in, you get more eye contact with the laptop than with them. The visit feels rushed, and you leave with more questions than answers.
That scene isn’t about indifference. It’s about time. Clinicians are buried under paperwork. Nearly
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Clinical Communication Maturity: The Missing Foundation of Digital Health ROI in Asia Pacific and the Middle East
Across Asia Pacific and the Middle East, hospital digital strategy has been dominated by EMR upgrades, infrastructure refresh cycles, and pilot projects in AI and analytics. Investment capital is chasing complexity. Yet the fastest, cheapest, and most direct ROI opportunity is hiding in plain sight—and systematically ignored. Clinical communication maturity.
This is not just another technology category. It is the operational substrate on which every other digital investment depends. Without
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AI in Pharmacovigilance: Balancing Innovation with Regulatory Trust in 2026
Pharmacovigilance (PV) is experiencing a renaissance. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept in PV; it’s here, reshaping how we manage safety data, detect signals and maintain compliance. From automating case intake to accelerating literature screening and supporting aggregate reporting, AI promises efficiency and scalability at a time when data volumes and regulatory expectations are soaring. Yet, for all its potential, AI introduces a new challenge:
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Beyond Compliance: Why “Check-the-Box” Security Fails in Healthcare
Healthcare has become a uniquely complex and high-risk digital environment. Most organizations deal with a patchwork of legacy systems, cloud migrations, and evolving third-party ecosystems, all of which make maintaining security feel like trying to patch holes in a leaky ship while mandated to sail full speed ahead.
With this backdrop, it’s no wonder many organizations and teams fall back on “check-the-box” compliance to manage risk.
It should go without
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The Hidden Cost of Poor Clinical Design: Why Feature-Rich Software Fails in Healthcare
Healthcare organizations invest billions annually in clinical technology, yet a troubling pattern persists: software that excels in feature demonstrations often fails when deployed in real clinical environments. The problem isn't inadequate functionality or insufficient computing power—it's the design neglect that ignores how healthcare professionals actually work.
Increasingly, these organizations report that user interface and experience design frequently determine implementation success as
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Surviving the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Technology Strategies for Safety-Net Providers Facing Medicaid Cuts
Financial challenges are not new to healthcare. A perfect storm of converging trends has left many organizations operating within razor-thin margins in recent years.
For safety-net providers, the latest financial uncertainties introduced by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act present yet another hurdle. Many financial executives may fear making the wrong move and choose to “freeze” in response to Medicaid funding cuts that will equate to nearly $800 million.
Yet inaction is likely
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