In 2024 alone, more than 276 million patient records were compromised in cyber attacks targeting healthcare organizations, a figure that equates to 758,000 exposed records every single day. The scale of the problem is shocking, but what’s even more sobering is that 92 percent of healthcare organizations reported experiencing at least one cyberattack last year. These aren’t just numbers; they reflect a growing crisis in trust, safety, and operational integrity across the entire healthcare system.
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The AI Malpractice Paradox: Why Healthcare Organizations Bear Full Legal Responsibility for Patient Harm
Healthcare organizations are installing artificial intelligence tools across their operations — diagnostic algorithms, predictive models, patient monitoring systems — while avoiding a fundamental question: Who gets sued when these systems harm patients?
Healthcare organizations bear full legal responsibility for any patient harm caused by AI tools they choose to use. This is direct medical malpractice liability, whether the AI was built internally or bought from a vendor. Yet while executives
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How Agentic AI Automates Healthcare Admin and Combats Burnout
Seventy minutes is enough time to complete a colonoscopy or a hernia repair; it's also the average time saved per patient visit when healthcare providers use fully automated administrative workflows that not just collect, but also act on data.
Clinicians are drowning in alerts, forms, and follow-ups, while $90 billion per year is spent on routine administrative tasks. Agentic AI brings a breakthrough, taking these informative alerts, and making decisions based on their context.
In
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The $78B Problem: Why Fragmented Communication is the Biggest Threat to Patient Safety
A single misrouted page in an ICU can delay treatment by hours — and cost lives. Across U.S. hospitals, those small lapses add up to billions in wasted dollars and untold patient harm in an already-overburdened system. To ensure efficient usage of those resources and expedite the exchange of important information, timely communication between care teams is necessary. More importantly, timely information sharing is a critical factor in patient outcomes. Unfortunately, the fragmented and outdated
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Scaling Virtual Care for Your Practice
Virtual care is transforming the way healthcare is delivered, enabling practices to reach patients well beyond the confines of the traditional exam room. From routine follow‑ups and chronic disease management to behavioral health consultations and medication reviews, telehealth offers flexibility and convenience. Yet, successfully integrating virtual care into an established practice demands more than simply flipping on a webcam; it requires planning, targeted execution, and ongoing
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Beyond Digitization: The Compelling ROI of Modern Disbursement Solutions in Healthcare
Healthcare faces a paradox: while clinical care embraces digital transformation, critical back-office financial processes, particularly disbursements, often lag behind. It's common knowledge that modernization is key; yet even as many providers receive payments electronically, outbound funds like patient refunds frequently rely on inefficient paper checks. This reliance on outdated methods signifies deeper operational issues hindering financial health.
Over the past decade, companies have
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Beyond the Firewall: How AI is Revolutionizing Insider Threat Detection in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a top tool in healthcare. Many know about its ability to improve diagnostics and manage workflows. However, it also defends against security risks. One area where it is making a major impact is detecting insider threats.
Healthcare organizations are vulnerable to these threats, which can create widespread complications across a large workforce. Fortunately, AI-powered detection systems provide secure defenses and maintain internal risk
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Capacity as a Growth Strategy: How Hospitals are Unlocking Revenue from Within
Hospitals across the country are confronting an uncomfortable paradox: while demand for care is growing, their ability to expand is shrinking. Health systems are under immense pressure to increase access, improve outcomes, and drive revenue growth—without adding beds, buildings, or workforce.
As a nurse and healthcare executive, I’ve seen this dynamic play out from the bedside to the boardroom. At its core, it’s a capacity problem. But it’s also a strategic opportunity. We are entering a new
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The Automation-First Mindset in Healthcare: Key Considerations for the AI Era
As AI use cases in healthcare continue to expand, the priority list for most IT organizations is dominated by areas where they want to leverage automation to improve existing workflows. But AI and automation initiatives shouldn’t just be at the top of the priority list – they need to be a fundamental part of everything on the list, from top to bottom. In other words, healthcare organizations need to adopt an automation-first mindset where they question how and where to use automation as part of
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The New Digital Frontier: How QHIN-Connected EHRs Level the Playing Field for Community Hospitals
In the past, technology was often used as a wedge against local hospital independence. Big systems would offer subsidized EHRs, and in exchange, small hospitals would give up control—over workflows, over data, over their futures. “Community Connect” models promised integration but too often delivered dependency.
That doesn’t have to be the future.
Thanks to the emergence of Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) under TEFCA, the national interoperability infrastructure is finally
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