Healthcare faces a paradox: while clinical care embraces digital transformation, critical back-office financial processes, particularly disbursements, often lag behind. It's common knowledge that modernization is key; yet even as many providers receive payments electronically, outbound funds like patient refunds frequently rely on inefficient paper checks. This reliance on outdated methods signifies deeper operational issues hindering financial health.
Over the past decade, companies have
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Beyond the Firewall: How AI is Revolutionizing Insider Threat Detection in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a top tool in healthcare. Many know about its ability to improve diagnostics and manage workflows. However, it also defends against security risks. One area where it is making a major impact is detecting insider threats.
Healthcare organizations are vulnerable to these threats, which can create widespread complications across a large workforce. Fortunately, AI-powered detection systems provide secure defenses and maintain internal risk
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Capacity as a Growth Strategy: How Hospitals are Unlocking Revenue from Within
Hospitals across the country are confronting an uncomfortable paradox: while demand for care is growing, their ability to expand is shrinking. Health systems are under immense pressure to increase access, improve outcomes, and drive revenue growth—without adding beds, buildings, or workforce.
As a nurse and healthcare executive, I’ve seen this dynamic play out from the bedside to the boardroom. At its core, it’s a capacity problem. But it’s also a strategic opportunity. We are entering a new
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The Automation-First Mindset in Healthcare: Key Considerations for the AI Era
As AI use cases in healthcare continue to expand, the priority list for most IT organizations is dominated by areas where they want to leverage automation to improve existing workflows. But AI and automation initiatives shouldn’t just be at the top of the priority list – they need to be a fundamental part of everything on the list, from top to bottom. In other words, healthcare organizations need to adopt an automation-first mindset where they question how and where to use automation as part of
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The New Digital Frontier: How QHIN-Connected EHRs Level the Playing Field for Community Hospitals
In the past, technology was often used as a wedge against local hospital independence. Big systems would offer subsidized EHRs, and in exchange, small hospitals would give up control—over workflows, over data, over their futures. “Community Connect” models promised integration but too often delivered dependency.
That doesn’t have to be the future.
Thanks to the emergence of Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) under TEFCA, the national interoperability infrastructure is finally
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The High Cost of Non-Adherence: AI-Powered Interventions Save Medicare $10M in Diabetes Care
The U.S. healthcare system is at a critical inflection point, especially when it comes to managing chronic disease, which is why the new administration in the U.S. is beginning deep-dive discussions on how best to tackle the growing issues — both human and cost related — tied to chronic diseases, like diabetes.
With over half of adults living with at least one chronic condition — and more than 38 million Americans diagnosed with diabetes — the economic and human cost is
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Beyond Governance: A Practical Guide for Health Systems to Deploy AI Effectively
At the recent HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum, an interesting paradox emerged. Despite excitement about ambient scribing and AI agents, health systems are still spending more time governing AI than actually deploying it.When a new clinical AI scribe agent made its debut, the room buzzed with excitement. But the very next session focused on oversight, governance, and policies; the same bureaucratic theater that seems to unduly slow healthcare innovation and transformation.
Implementation of
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Beyond the “Batch of One”: How Flexible Manufacturing is Revolutionizing Biopharma
Biopharmaceutical companies today are facing a very different manufacturing challenge than they were a decade ago. Traditional production models were built to make large volumes of a small number of products. But with the rise of targeted therapies, faster development cycles, and increasing demand for personalized medicine, that one-size-fits-all approach no longer works.
Now, the industry is under pressure to support smaller batches, more complex processes, and tighter timelines—without
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Why Broken Analog Infrastructure Blocks Behavioral Health Innovation
Behavioral health has become a leading frontier for digital health innovation. From virtual therapy platforms to AI-powered diagnostics, the sector has drawn massive investment and attention. However, most behavioral health providers still operate in a system powered by faxes, phone calls, and fractured workflows. The tools may be new, but the terrain beneath them hasn’t changed. And that makes all the difference.
This is a blind spot for the healthtech
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Why Certificate Lifecycle Management is a Strategic Imperative for Healthcare
You won’t find a more impactful initiative for your healthcare IT strategy today than implementing a Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) solution. While some organizations have adopted basic tools or competitive offerings, many still rely on fragmented, manual processes for managing digital certificates. In an industry as high-stakes and overburdened as healthcare, that’s a risk we can no longer afford.
Digital certificates play a critical role in securing data, enabling encrypted
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