By Jen McCormick and David Ostrowsky – Prior. Authorization. Lumped together, the two words have long been the bane of patients’ experience in navigating an often-byzantine healthcare system. Whether you’re a patient with diabetes waiting ever-so patiently for insulin or one suffering from multiple sclerosis and in dire need of…
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By Ashish Singh – Building Financial Cases for Clinical Communication Investment – Most clinical communication business cases fail at the board level. Not because the technology doesn’t work. Not because the clinical need isn’t real. The problem is simpler: the financial framing doesn’t match what decision-makers actually care about when allocating capital.
By Daree Allen Nieves – A Black History Month Wake-Up Call on Patient Engagement – Health systems that evaluate remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions unknowingly select vendors whose patient education systematically excludes 40% of their patient population.
By Laura Young – The future of tech enabled care has never felt more real than it does heading into 2026. We are standing at a moment where statewide interoperability, Medicaid modernization, AI acceleration, and community level transformation are converging to reshape how data supports the people who need it most.
Latest News and grants from The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). This HHS agency’s mission is to fund pivotal, high‑risk/high‑reward technologies that traditional research or commercial pathways struggle to deliver—mirroring the DARPA model but focused on health.
By Paula Span – You’re ready to leave the hospital, but you don’t feel able to care for yourself at home yet. Or, you’ve completed a couple of weeks in rehab. Can you handle your complicated medication regimen, along with shopping and cooking?
By Ellie Gabel – Hospitals and medical laboratories are increasingly reliant on electronic systems for data storage, communication and asset management. How long can they survive a technology blackout? If they implement information technology strategies to protect their operations during power failures, they never have to find out.
By David Ostrowsky – Among the many issues that Americans, both patients and practitioners, have with their country’s healthcare system are that a.) the administrative hassles for insurance matters can be burdensome and b.) the patient-doctor relationship is increasingly void of good old face time.
By Philip Wickline – For all of the technological advancements that have unfolded in healthcare over the past several years, one relic of the past still seems to sum up today’s patient experience. The clipboard. It’s a potent symbol of just how much responsibility and redundancy healthcare providers continue to thrust onto patients when it comes to gathering and sharing data.