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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Key Ways To Manage Liability Risk For High-Tech Implantable Devices
Medical device makers face serious liability risks whenever high-tech implants reach real patients nationwide. A solid mitigation policy helps reduce legal trouble, protects patients, and supports safer product success every day. The right policy and scheme help align device risks with proper financial protection that matters. Professional consultants can offer guidance, clear strategies, and liability insight that strengthen responsible product management.
Medical device insurance may help
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Advanced Primary Care 2026: Top 6 Investments for Health Systems According to Harvard Medical School
What You Should Know
- Harvard Medical School’s Center for Primary Care has released a comprehensive "Primary Care Investment Guide," providing the first evidence-based roadmap for deploying capital into team-based care models.
- The report identifies six critical "Advanced Primary Care" (APC) services—including behavioral health integration and e-consults—that demonstrate measurable ROI through reduced hospitalizations and improved equity.
- With the U.S. spending only 4.6% of
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The Pharmacy Closures Crisis: How Independent Pharmacies Are Fixing Pharmacy Deserts
In October, Rite Aid announced it would close all remaining stores, following a multi-year trend of major pharmacy chains like Walgreens and CVS eliminating thousands of locations.
When the only nearby pharmacy shutters, where can patients go instead? For a growing number of communities, the answer is: nowhere close.
Nearly 16 million people in the United States live in a pharmacy desert, traveling a significant distance to reach the nearest pharmacy. This limited access to
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Stop the $150B Drain: Using AI Agents to Fix Missed Appointments
Urban Health Plan scheduled 794,322 patient visits in 2022. Only 457,722 people showed up.
The missing 336,600 appointments cost the New York health system revenue, burned out their providers with constant rescheduling, and forced patients to wait weeks for the care they needed. Urban Health Plan isn't alone. Missed appointments drain $150 billion from U.S. healthcare every year, according to research published in the Annals of Family Medicine.
Healthcare systems have tried to fix this
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CMS Launches WISeR Model: New Medicare Prior Authorization Rules Start Jan. 1
Earlier this year the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services introduced the "Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction" model, a series of prior authorization requirements designed to ensure timely and appropriate Medicare payment for select items and services in six states (New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and Washington) that take effect Jan. 1.
As part of the “WISeR” requirements, CMS selected tech vendors to implement enhanced technological models to
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AI Nutrition Labels: The Key to Provider Adoption and Patient Trust?
At the frontline of patient care, providers have been put under impossible pressure to lead the charge for AI within healthcare. This is not a sustainable way to move the needle towards increased AI innovation for healthcare as a whole. Providers require a familiar frame of reference, collaboration with a broader network to build effective standards, and tools that will help translate the impact of innovation to patients and ensure safety.
The healthcare industry is finally on the brink of a
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The 2025 Margin Rally: Hospitals See Late-Year Gains Despite Soaring Drug Costs
What You Should Know:
- U.S. health systems recorded their strongest financial improvement of the year in November 2025, with median year-to-date operating margins rising to 1.5%, marking the fourth consecutive month of gains.
- Despite this stability, hospitals remain under significant pressure from rising expenses, particularly a 9.3% year-over-year spike in drug costs and increasing financial strain on physician practices. While revenue is growing, high operational costs suggest that
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Is Your Agency Next? Why Behavioral Health Leaders Can’t Ignore Cybersecurity
Many behavioral health agencies lack adequate controls to address and recover from a cybersecurity incident. What these agencies need are capabilities such as adequate backup and recovery, managed detection and response (MDR), security information and event management (SIEM), data loss prevention and other key security elements. Without these tools, agency leaders cannot identify a security incident and remedy or recover their IT environment.
In a 2024 report, the Ponemon Institute, an IT
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