As healthcare accelerates toward value-based models and personalized engagement, one truth is becoming increasingly clear: clinical data alone is no longer enough.
While electronic health records and claims data provide foundational insight into diagnoses, treatments, and outcomes, they paint only a partial picture of a patient’s experience. What they often miss are the socioeconomic, behavioral, and lifestyle factors that profoundly influence how people engage with
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Cyber Resilience is Patient Safety: Why Healthcare Organizations Can’t Ignore Backup and Instant Recovery
Healthcare is under siege. Over the past five years, the sector has seen a 256% rise in cybersecurity breaches, as attackers grow more aggressive, more advanced and more relentless. Ransomware, phishing and supply chain attacks are evolving faster than most security teams can keep up with, and as a result, hospitals, clinics and care facilities are feeling the strain.
The reason? Healthcare is more connected than ever before. From bedside monitors and other internet of medical things (IoMT)
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How Behavioral Health Providers Can Prepare for 42 CFR Part 2 Compliance
The revised 42 CFR Part 2 regulations are coming. For behavioral health providers, they arrive at a time when the future feels unsteady and unpredictable. Enforcement will begin in early 2026, but the preparation window is rapidly closing. Clinics are navigating major changes in how they must collect, segment, and share patient data related to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. Additionally, recent federal budget reforms mean the reimbursement environment is
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Beyond Proof of Concept: Integrating Generative AI Safely into Clinical Workflows
Generative AI is no longer a novelty, it’s a necessity. For healthcare leaders, the conversation has evolved beyond proof of concept. The real challenge now is integration: embedding these models into clinical workflows in ways that are safe, scalable, and operationally sound. Success demands more than impressive outputs. It requires systems built for healthcare’s complexity, with the agility to support frontline decisions and the clarity to preserve the human judgment at the heart of
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Rise of Deepfake HR Scams: How GenAI is Fueling the New Era of Applicant Fraud in Healthcare
Every HR and talent acquisition (TA) professional has experienced a bad hire. You carefully review and assess a candidate’s skills, experience, and credentials. You evaluate them through a series of interviews with multiple stakeholders. You’re all but certain they’ll be a perfect fit for the role. And, then, three weeks into their tenure you realize you’ve made a huge mistake.
The occasional bad hire is all but inevitable. But now, HR and TA professionals have something much more
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The Agentic Workforce: 10 New AI Roles Transforming Life Sciences Operations by 2032
As AI agents move from concept to colleague, the life sciences workforce is about to expand – no desks required.
While much of the activity is still in testing phases, AI agents are already making a difference in specific, high-return areas. AI is being used for processing and sorting pharmacovigilance (PV) reports, drafting medical and regulatory documents, assisting with lab operations, inspecting product quality, and helping employees find internal information.
The coming year will see
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Why Hospitals Must Prioritize Modern Network Upgrades Now
The healthcare industry has faced compounding pressures for years. Between staffing shortages putting strain on employee workloads, budget constraints, and ongoing tech modernizations, a solution is needed to ease and improve workloads and improve security, without sacrificing patient experiences. But resource constraints mean many hospitals aren’t prioritizing modern IT upgrades, including the networks that are vital to running day-to-day operations, which could prove to be a costly mistake in
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Demystifying Prepay Coordination of Benefits: A Crucial Component of Payment Integrity
Coordination of benefits (COB) is a key component of any effective payment integrity program. But determining primacy for members with multiple plans and ensuring claims aren’t overpaid can be a complicated process. Whether it’s verifying employment status or sifting through complicated claims, COB takes significant time for peak accuracy. And while health plans focus on the intricacies of an effective COB strategy, many overlook the possibilities that a comprehensive prepay COB solution can
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The Double-Edged Sword: Why AI is Healthcare’s Biggest Cybersecurity Threat Yet
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ultimate double-edged sword in healthcare. On one side, AI is already driving real improvements, from accelerating diagnostic imaging to streamlining operational workflows such as delivering faster, more accurate, and more efficient patient care. And we are still only at the beginning; AI’s potential to reshape healthcare is undeniable.
But that optimism is tempered by the reality that AI also introduces one of the most significant cybersecurity risks the
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Reimbursement Shift under 2026 PFS Poised to Usher in New Era for RPM
The annual release of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) generated more attention than usual this year among practices that have considered or are already offering Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) to their patients. CMS’s July 14 publication of the proposed rule, outlining revisions to payment policies and rates, was seen as particularly significant for RPM.
Key changes to RPM under the 2026 PFS include the introduction of a code for 2-15 days of data collection and another that allows
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