By Ankur Malik – On paper, medical record indexing sounds simple. A clinical document comes in. Someone identifies the patient, figures out what kind of document it is, and sends it to the right place in the chart. The rules can be written down. The team can be trained. The work should be repeatable.

By Dr. Ali Azeem Rajwani – For most payer technology teams, CMS-0057-F still lives in a folder marked “next year.” The compliance date, January 1, 2027, feels far enough away to keep it in the planning column. That framing is the first mistake. The rule does not reward organizations that are ready on the deadline. It rewards the ones that treated the year before it as the real work.

ATA Action announced the launch of the Cross-State Care Coalition, a new national effort bringing together health systems, provider organizations, innovators, and virtual care leaders to develop and advance practical, bipartisan federal legislation that removes unnecessary barriers to cross-state care and expands patient access.

By Des Moloney – This article looks at why healthcare organizations should treat identity and access management as an organizational risk rather than simply an IT responsibility. It outlines five key questions organizations should answer for every identity to improve ownership, reduce access risk, and build a more sustainable identity program.