As payers and health systems seek scalable solutions to address obesity, the conversation is shifting from access to accountability. Virtual weight management programs have emerged as a critical tool for expanding reach, but to deliver real value, these programs must prove their value ahead of the competition in an increasingly competitive market. This proof needs to be shown in both ROI and patient and population outcomes.
The obesity epidemic is well documented, but as recent research
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Cybersecurity Challenges in AI-Driven Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Lessons from the Frontlines
The pharmaceutical industry is undergoing a digital transformation like never before. Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and real-time analytics have revolutionized manufacturing. Predictive maintenance, intelligent batch scheduling, and machine learning enhanced inspections have created a modern production floor that is smarter, faster, and more connected.
This transformation, however, comes with an underestimated cost: cybersecurity risk.
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The Invisible Risk Factor: Why Chronic Loneliness Is Sabotaging Chronic Care and Medication Adherence
Connectivity was supposed to bring us closer. Instead, it’s exposing a dangerous gap in our healthcare system. The very tools designed to link us have scaled rapidly, but without addressing one of the most urgent and invisible threats to health: loneliness.
Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recently delivered a stark reminder: Chronic loneliness carries the same mortality risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. His warning hits especially hard in healthcare, where digital relationships are on
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Stop Losing Mobile Workstations: A Healthcare IT Guide to Fleet Management Success
Healthcare IT professionals understand just how big an impact technology can have on positive patient outcomes, provider engagement, and an efficient technical infrastructure. However, onboarding new technology can often come with a steep learning curve that can feel like more work than it’s worth.
With the right tools and focus for both providers and IT teams, technology can facilitate favorable outcomes both efficiently and effectively to achieve streamlined workflow
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Guardrails for AI in Medicare Risk Adjustment: Navigating Innovation Without Losing Control
Implementing AI in Risk Adjustment for Managed Care is like adding rocket fuel to your engine—from accelerating chart reviews to identifying coding opportunities in near real-time, AI can dramatically improve efficiency, accuracy, and compliance. But without the right safeguards, the same tools can just as easily magnify errors, introduce bias, and create costly regulatory exposure.
As Managed Care organizations navigate this rapidly evolving landscape, a key question looms: How
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The $168B Answer: How AI Can Tame Healthcare’s Untamed Administrative Beast
A quick google (or generative AI) search will pour hundreds of statistics about the dire state of healthcare costs plaguing our nation. Whether it’s the fact that we spend almost 5x as much as neighboring Canada per capita on healthcare administrative costs or that it means every 4th dollar spent is wasted, there are numerous scary statistics we have grown used to reading.
It certainly wasn’t meant to be.
How did a system designed to heal become so broken and smeared in complexity
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Unstructured Data Crisis: How AI Solves Healthcare’s Biggest Interoperability Challenge
One of the most daunting quandaries in healthcare is managing the abundance of data that are generated every day. The challenge isn’t just the vast volume of information, but the fact that most data are unstructured. Unstructured data require a considerable amount of manual intervention to read the contents and determine where the information needs to be integrated for the most efficient action.
These data challenges multiply as organizations struggle to compile information across various
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5 Ways Remote Patient Monitoring is Reducing Hospital Readmissions
Hospitals right now are working at full capacity, with bed occupancy around 75% in the U.S. and it is projected to rise even further. The hospital overcrowding ultimately leads to longer waits for care, delays, staff burnout, and poor patient treatment outcomes.
The good news is that technology is evolving fast and is here to reduce the hospital bed-shortage crisis. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is one of the solutions that helps reduce the burden on the providers, as it allows
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Multi-Vector Attacks: Why Healthcare’s Siloed Security Approach Is Failing Now
In football, it’s called an all-out blitz. In cybersecurity, it’s called a multi-vector attack.
Five years ago, most cyber attacks were of the single-vector variety: a phishing expedition or a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Now cyber criminals are more sophisticated, launching multi-vector onslaughts that might simultaneously involve those tactics plus attempts at data exfiltration, account takeover and credential stuffing.
By probing for multiple vulnerabilities at the same
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The $150B Problem: How Missed Appointments Crush Healthcare and Risk Lives
Nicole is a 35-year-old single mother living in Boston. She recently completed treatment for breast cancer and was scheduled for a follow-up screening. The clinic sent a single text message reminder and a letter. She intended to call and reschedule once things settled, but between juggling two part-time jobs and managing childcare, the appointment slipped by.
That screening was meant to catch any early signs of recurrence. When the first reminder failed, no system flagged her as at risk or
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