Health IT

Picture a revenue cycle where surgical cancellations are rare, A/R runs below the national benchmark and leadership can see workflow performance in real time. That’s where one Indiana orthopedic practice landed after three years of continuous revenue cycle automation. The…

Clinicians at CHRISTUS Health keep describing their AI platform the same way: ”This is life-changing.” But when it came time to deepen the partnership, leadership did not rely on early wins alone. They looked at how much the platform had…

Surgical services generate up to 70% of a hospital’s total revenue, yet the data used to run the OR is built on inputs that were never designed for an active surgical case. Implants, supplies and waste are tracked by circulating…

Synthetic identity fraud and deepfake-enabled attacks are active, scaled, and accelerating. Most organizations haven’t caught up. The verification methods many healthcare providers rely on were built around a simpler threat: one document, one face, one check. Today’s fraudsters combine AI-generated…

Telehealth is no longer a workaround; it is core infrastructure for how care gets delivered. In one industry survey, 93% of organizations reported an active telehealth program, and 69% have run one for three years or more. Drawing on that…

Scarcity has always shaped healthcare. “Triage” assumes there isn’t enough to treat everyone at the level they need. “Population health” often means concentrating limited resources on the highest-risk sliver of a panel. But a new generation of clinically safe AI voice…

A patient assumes every physician has their full longitudinal picture. Too often, that picture is scattered across tabs, reports, device systems and outside records, and the insight stays out of reach. It gets worse below the surface. One health system…

Most hospitals’ vendor credentialing programs were built to protect clinical spaces, especially the operating room. But the operating room isn’t where most third-party personnel actually go. Environmental services, food and nutrition staff, biomedical technicians and facilities contractors move through patient…

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs delivers more than 127 million healthcare appointments annually while managing a massive, years-long EHR modernization effort. At the same time, clinicians across the system are facing growing documentation demands, workforce shortages and the cognitive…

No matter how diligently health systems plan, they cannot control the many external factors that create volatility in supply chains for vital healthcare resources. However, health systems can build resiliency into their organizations to mitigate the impact supply chain fluctuations…