By Laura Young – If you’ve been in any interoperability conversation lately, you’ve probably heard the term Health Data Utility (HDU). It’s the new favorite acronym in health data circles, often paired with big promises about uniting systems, transforming care, and finally solving that persistently elusive data-sharing problem.
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By Jim Foote – As cancer becomes the #1 killer of men and the #2 killer of women under 50, with two million new cancer diagnoses and more than 600,000 deaths projected for 2025, oncologists are racing to find tools that can transform biological complexity into clinical clarity.
By Chris Pace – Whether someone’s trying to find a provider, get cost information, or understand their next step in care, search is the primary gateway. Expectations are sky-high, shaped by the search experiences people have every day with Amazon, Google and ChatGPT. If your health system can’t meet those expectations, patients will go elsewhere, quickly.
By Russ Smith – Healthcare’s digital transformation has made information the currency of care. Every shared record or connected system depends on data that can be trusted. As organizations become more interoperable and integrate artificial intelligence into daily workflows, protecting that trust is now essential to reliable care delivery.
By Phil Galewitz – With the federal shutdown continuing, spurred by a stalemate over the cost of health insurance for 22 million Americans on Affordable Care Act plans, a new report shows that over 154 million people with coverage through an employer also face steep price hikes — and that the situation is likely to get worse.
By Ellie Gabel – Power disruptions can instantly derail operations in digitally integrated hospitals. Modern health care relies on a complex network of connected medical devices, cloud-based data systems and analytics-driven workflows that demand constant power. Even short outages can interrupt surgeries, disable monitoring systems and compromise patient outcomes.
By Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser – The theme of “Empower. Evolve. Impact.” could not have been more fitting, as the conversations throughout the conference centered on the evolving influence of Health Information professionals in shaping interoperability, privacy, and data integrity.
By Usman Choudhary – Email is the connective tissue of modern healthcare. From appointment confirmations to lab reports, care coordination notes to claims documentation, it is woven into nearly every clinical and administrative workflow.
By Zac Amos – Hospitals run on email, shared portals and ticket queues. Attackers now use generative artificial intelligence to send convincing messages that mimic colleagues, patients, payers or IT to push rushed logins. Language errors used to give such scams away, but AI reduces those tells and scales personalization across thousands of targets.