By Ellie Gabel – Health care data centers are central to holding key information that supports clinical care and patient monitoring systems. However, a single natural occurrence or a structural failure can damage entire hospital networks and put patient safety at risk.
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By Beth Friedman – Takeaways from HFMA 2025. In healthcare, we’ve faced uncertainty many times before and we’ll face it again. Revenue cycle and finance executives will adapt and succeed with new technologies and community partnerships as their foundation for the future.
By August Calhoun – Healthcare is at an inflection point. As leaders navigate financial constraints, evolving regulations and patient expectations, the need to deliver safer, more efficient care has never been greater. In the current climate, three key areas are rising to the top of every executive’s agenda: improving care quality, strengthening the workforce and making data more actionable.
By Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser – Recently, Scott Stuewe, our President and CEO, and I represented DirectTrust in Washington, D.C. alongside fellow leaders, where we gained clarity around the future of our industry under this Administration, and how we may collectively respond.
By Matt Fisher – Imagine this scenario: an individual is suffering from substance use disorder and decides to seek help. A big reason for not getting treatment is reportedly not knowing how or where to get treatment, not being able to afford the treatment, and/or not finding a program or clinician where they wanted to be able to go.
By Amy Johnson – For pharmaceutical manufacturers and life sciences organizations, ensuring patients use medications as intended is central to outcomes, safety, and adherence. But when EHR prescribing workflows introduce ambiguity, especially with patient instructions, those goals become harder to achieve.
By Stephen Vaccaro – Offering a solution to the disconnected systems holding Home Care back. Enabled by technology, the industry has streamlined everything from the delivery of test results to treatment timelines, meeting patient needs with unprecedented speed. Industry professionals are continuously seeking ways to deliver care as effectively as possible.
By Kent Dicks – Over the past decade, health systems have embraced the call to digitize. Telehealth has surged. Digital health apps are everywhere, and wearable devices now track everything from heart rates to glucose levels to sleep patterns and dreams or whether you snore. But with every new innovation comes another login, another workflow, and another layer added to an already overburdened system.
By Bernard J. Wolfson – Republican efforts to restrict taxes on hospitals, health plans, and other providers that states use to help fund their Medicaid programs could strip them of tens of billions of dollars. The move could shrink access to health care for some of the nation’s poorest and most vulnerable people, warn analysts, patient advocates, and Democratic political leaders.