Patients may be seen by various doctors and clinicians during treatment, such as a primary care physician who diagnoses diabetes and monitors overall health, an endocrinologist who adjusts medications and monitors blood sugar, and a dietitian who assists with nutrition. If these professionals can’t work together and share information, it creates a disconnect that impacts the quality of care delivery.
Interoperability is the missing piece to ensuring teams understand patients and their
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5 Levels of Identity Intelligence in Healthcare
Identity in healthcare begins with knowing who’s who, but there are different degrees of “knowing.”
Think of everyone you know: family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances. Some you know extremely well and some you know only superficially. And that’s fine. You need to know a lot about your partner to have a happy marriage; you don’t need to know as much about your dentist to get your teeth cleaned.
Similarly, there are five levels at which healthcare organizations can know
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Remote Monitoring After Cardiac Surgery Reveals Undetected AFib Events, Study Finds
Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is one of the most common complications following cardiac surgery. It affects up to 40% of patients, depending on the procedure. During the early recovery period, patients are continuously monitored in the ICU using telemetry and intermittent ECGs to detect irregular heart rhythms. But once patients are discharged, that monitoring stops, and clinicians have little visibility into patients’ recovery.
That gap can carry clinical consequences. AFib increases
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From Burnout to Balance, Tech is Transforming Work: Lessons from the Nursing Shortage
Work for the modern person is not like an episode of “Severance,” the dystopian show where employees surgically separate their work lives and personal lives to achieve a perceived work-life balance.
The reality for most of us correlates better to a plate-spinning circus act. The key lies in managing multiple aspects of life simultaneously, focusing on what needs attention most urgently. No two plates are ever spinning at the same speed at the same time, but we work to keep them in motion.
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4 Steps to Safely Implement AI in Healthcare and Pharmacy Operations
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming healthcare, including pharmacy operations, clinical workflows, and business processes. As adoption accelerates, it's essential to ensure that AI is implemented responsibly—especially given the sensitive nature of patient data and the complexities of care delivery. Success in this space requires a balance of high tech and high touch: robust human oversight and ethical governance. Here are four key steps to help healthcare and pharmacy
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Virtual Patients: How AI Simulation Is Revolutionizing Clinical Trials and Drug Development
The most consequential shift in modern medicine isn’t happening inside hospitals or biotech labs. It’s happening inside medical simulation labs / training centers.
Drug development has long been marked by high costs, inefficiency, and human trial-and-error. Indeed, the cost of developing a single therapeutic exceeds $2.6 billion according to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. Much of this expense can be attributed to the clinical trial process.
Clinical trials are a
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Beyond Step Counts: How AI-Powered Gait Analysis is Unlocking a New Vital Sign in Healthcare
Gait—how we walk—provides powerful, often overlooked insights into our physical, cognitive, mental, and social health. It’s more than just movement; it serves as a window into our overall well-being, with impairments in gait and mobility linked to falls, cognitive decline, chronic conditions, and even mortality. While healthcare professionals have long studied these connections, there’s something universally intuitive about how we assess a person’s health just by watching them walk.
Though
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Healthcare’s Shift to Proactive Cybersecurity Measures
Health insurance payers, healthcare providers, and their associated contractors who handle patient data have all been forced to reckon with heightened cybersecurity concerns. For the entire industry, a proactive approach — rather than a reactive approach — is more important than ever.
The data around expensive security breaches and other cyberattacks do not tell the complete story of what’s happening in healthcare. Payers and providers are being inundated with alerts — almost all of which
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How Self-Triage and Care Navigation Can Fix Healthcare’s Hidden Problem
U.S. health systems are navigating a storm of staff shortages, budget constraints, and rising patient demand. But there’s another, less visible factor compounding these pressures: Patients are often booking care that doesn’t match what they clinically need. This misalignment not only gums up access but also diverts critical resources from those who need them most.
While efforts to expand capacity typically focus on increasing provider supply, support staff headcount, or physical
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PCCI’s Community Vulnerability Compass: The Gold Standard for SDOH Measurement
If you are leading efforts to improve and understand public health in your community, we’ve researched and validated that PCCI’s Community Vulnerability Compass (CVC) offers an improvement in advanced insights and performance compared to existing tools that measure community socioeconomic conditions in our neighborhoods. Although getting here took a lot of innovation and perseverance, through a recent publication, we are now able to share what factors differentiate the CVC and why it offers
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