What You Should Know
- The 2026 State of Healthcare Supply Chain Survey from symplr reveals a "dual crisis" as supply chain leaders struggle to balance persistent global disruptions with escalating multi-million dollar savings targets.
- Optimism has plummeted, with 53% of leaders expecting challenges to worsen this year, while a deepening disconnect with clinicians—only 3% of whom are seen as "strongly supportive"—threatens essential cost-containment and standardization efforts.
The
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The “Digital Front Door” or a Revolving Door? Why Nurse-Led Access is 2026’s Critical Efficiency Lever
What You Should Know
- A new national report from Conduit Health Partners reveals that 74% of patient triage cases are resolved without an ER visit when clinical expertise is placed at the first point of contact.
- The report, “The Connected System: Insights on Patient Access and Throughput,” finds that aligning nurse-led triage with centralized transfer centers can drive a 3:1 return on investment by protecting hospital capacity and reducing the "firefighting" of downstream
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Analysis: The “Password Pain” Tax—Why 85% of Healthcare IT Leaders Are Moving Beyond Legacies
What You Should Know
- A new report from Imprivata reveals that 85% of healthcare IT leaders now view passwordless authentication as "very important" or "mission-critical".
- Despite this, only 7% of organizations have fully adopted passwordless workflows, leaving clinicians stuck in a cycle of "password pain" that causes delays in patient care for 41% of institutions and drives risky workarounds in 46%.
A 7% Adoption Reality
The most striking finding is the chasm between
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From Fragmentation to Clarity: How Ambient AI Powers Value-Based Care
As healthcare organizations deepen their investments in value-based care, one obstacle continues to stymie progress: incomplete visibility into the patient’s health status. The problem isn’t limited to a single source, such as claims data, though claims are often blamed. Rather, it’s the fragmented nature of healthcare data itself. Patient information is dispersed across a patchwork of systems—EHRs, HIEs, scanned documents, specialist consults, diagnostic reports, lab results, payer files, and
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When the Zebra Hides: How AI Ends the Rare Disease Diagnostic Odyssey
Doctors are taught a simple rule early in their training: When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras. In other words, the most common explanation is usually the right one. But for the roughly 300 million people worldwide living with a rare disease, that rule can turn into a trap. Their symptoms often look like something ordinary – until years later, when someone finally realizes it was a zebra all along.
The problem isn’t the doctors; it’s the data. Every symptom, lab result, scan, or
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How Employers Can Save $550/Month on GLP-1s: Introducing Vida Self-Pay
What You Should Know
- Vida Health has partnered with RxSaveCard to launch Vida Self-Pay, a first-of-its-kind platform that bypasses traditional PBM markups for anti-obesity medications (AOMs).
- By combining virtual, whole-person clinical care with transparent "cash-price" subsidies, the partnership enables employers to save up to $550 per member per month while expanding access to GLP-1s and other AOMs.
Bypassing the PBM "Walled Garden"
The Vida Self-Pay model functions as a
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The $32B Leak: Why Digitizing the OR is the Only Path to Financial and Workforce Resilience
In recent months, headlines on both sides of the Atlantic have told the same story. U.S. hospitals are cutting back surgical schedules because they simply don’t have enough staff, while NHS figures show more than seven million people still waiting for treatment in England. A regrettably high number of procedures are cancelled on the day because the workforce is stretched too thin.
For patients, the consequences are deeply personal - longer waits, worsening conditions, and avoidable
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Beyond Email: Why Communication Failures are Driving the Nursing Crisis
What You Should Know
- New research from Firstup reveals that 81% of hospital nurses attribute patient care issues directly to organizational miscommunication.
- With traditional channels like email failing a "deskless" workforce, communication gaps are now a primary driver of clinician burnout and a "retention tax" costing hospitals an average of $61,110 per lost RN.
Firstup 2026 State of Nursing Communication Report
As hospitals nationwide navigate margin pressure and a
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What’s Replacing Traditional NLP in Risk Adjustment and Why It Matters
The RADV expansion isn’t the real story. Neither is V28.
The real story is what happened when both arrived simultaneously—and exposed a truth the industry had been quietly ignoring: the AI that powered risk adjustment for the past decade was never built for the precision, explainability, or adaptability the new environment demands.
Traditional NLP succeeded because the tolerance for error was high enough to absorb its limitations. That tolerance just evaporated.
The 70% Accuracy Nobody
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The Proprietary Trap: Why ‘Open Data’ is the Key to Scaling Your Dental Practice in 2026
Care coordination in the dental industry barely exists.
While the medical industry has made progress toward interoperability with several recent initiatives, dentistry continues to lag behind its healthcare counterparts in supporting the principles of “open data,” which allow information to be freely accessed, used, and shared across platforms without restrictive barriers.
Improved data-sharing offers significant benefits for both patients and providers.
Dental
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