Is our siloed approach to health surveillance creating the perfect conditions for the next pandemic?
Recent outbreaks—from avian influenza to E. coli contamination in leafy greens—highlight the urgent need for integrated disease surveillance systems. Yet, many public health surveillance systems still operate in isolation, creating dangerous blind spots in our ability to detect and respond to zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and environmental contamination.
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Pediatric Care: 3 Strategic Ways to Improve Pediatric Engagement
Providers can improve pediatric care by boosting engagement with parents and caregivers throughout the care process to promote education and increase awareness.
When parents and caregivers are more educated on their children’s health conditions, treatment options, and preventative care, they are more empowered to make informed healthcare decisions and participate actively in their child's health.
By adopting patient engagement technology such as portals, mobile apps, and
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Beyond SaaS: How Agent as a Service is Transforming Healthcare Automation
Agent as a service (AaaS) goes beyond SaaS to offer greater automation, fewer errors, and to perform more tasks in real time while requiring less effort from humans. For specific healthcare use cases, it can be very effective. This article explores the basics of Agentic AI and the ways in which it is more capable than a typical SaaS-based architecture.
Agentic AI basics
Agents are essentially autonomous or semi-autonomous codebases that perform three key sub-tasks:
Accessing
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Patient-Centric Approaches in an Era of Multi-Indication Therapies
The life sciences industry has undergone a profound transformation over the past decade, evolving from a product-centric model to one that places patients at the center of its business strategy. This shift toward patient-centricity coincides with the rise of multi-indication therapies — treatments approved to address multiple conditions — to create a dynamic landscape that benefits both patients and life sciences companies alike.
The advent of patient-centricity
Patient-centricity requires
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New Opportunities for Healthcare AI: Decoding the 2026 Medicare Advantage Rate Hike
Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2026 Medicare Advantage (MA) Rate Announcement, projecting a 5.06% average increase in payments to MA plans. That’s a notable jump from the 3.70% increase we saw in 2025. More than just a financial adjustment, this signals growing confidence in the Medicare Advantage model—and with it, growing expectations.
What does this mean simply? Insurance companies offering these plans will receive more government funding,
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What Are Healthcare’s Most Pressing Revenue Integrity Issues in The Remote-Work Era?
With more and more organizations merging for scale and sustainability, revenue cycle teams are being centralized, taking these critical personnel further away from physicians at the bedside. Remote teams are finding it harder than ever to collaborate with clinicians on critical functions.
Simultaneously, more revenue cycle functions are being automated as robotic process automation and generative AI evolves. With fewer administrative personnel in general — and even fewer
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New Strategies Needed: No Surprises Act and the Challenges for Payors with Provider Data Inaccuracies
With more than 20 years of experience at a major health insurance company, I’ve seen firsthand how challenging provider data management can be. I’ve worked with teams reconciling files from delegated groups, fielded calls from frustrated providers, and navigated compliance pitfalls that can quickly become operational headaches. But the stakes have never been higher than they are now under the No Surprises Act (NSA).
For years, maintaining an accurate provider directory was considered a best
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Boost Medicare Star Ratings: A Strategic Game Plan for Health Plans
As they navigate complex times, health insurers have their eye on two important financial indicators. And both are moving in the wrong direction. Costs are on the rise while Medicare Star Ratings are on the decline.
Separate but related, the two trends converge on the same idea: health plans need to enable higher quality care at a lower price.
If it sounds like a Herculean feat, that’s because it is. But some health plans are making it happen.
While some of the cost pressures—for
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Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy Is a Window into Long-Term Health
New research continues to affirm what maternal health advocates have long known: pregnancy is a powerful window into long-term health. One of the most promising areas of study is blood pressure monitoring, which is proving to be not just essential for a healthy pregnancy, but a potential predictor of future cardiovascular disease — the leading cause of death in the United States.
For many women, pregnancy may be the first meaningful interaction with the healthcare system in
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Beyond Patient-Centric: The Rise of Evidence-Based, Content-Centric Care
he past decade has seen healthcare undergo a paradigm shift. Walking into a treatment room today, the dynamic with patients is fundamentally different from even a few years ago. No longer satisfied with passively receiving care, patients – in particular, younger generations like Gen Z – increasingly want a seat at the table. They want to be active, informed participants in all aspects of their health care. And the data backs this up. According to McKinsey, only 42% of Gen Z depend on doctors for
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