Health Innovation

The “Last Mile” Risk in Healthcare

By Ron Nagar – Why Spring Temperature Swings Are a Hidden Threat to Medication Efficacy – Many welcome the spring season with open arms. Others, with allergies and seasonal illnesses, often wish they could skip the season altogether. The weather we experience in spring is often more volatile than any other season.


How Preventive Health Tech Reduces Emergency Care Usage

By April Miller – Preventive health technologies are increasingly reshaping how healthcare systems identify risk, manage chronic disease and respond to patient deterioration. Rather than relying on reactive interventions once symptoms become severe, clinicians now have access to continuous streams of patient data and predictive insights that support earlier decision-making.


A Different Approach to eSource Starts with the Clinical Research Site

By Nick Frenzer – Developing new drugs and therapies is a contact sport for research sites. Investigators are on the frontlines, meeting and treating patients to help them live healthier lives. At the same time, sites are working through complex protocols, numerous disconnected systems, and manual processes that are costly in time and resources.



HOPE Is Raising the Stakes for Hospice Compliance

By Michelle Barlow RN BSN – Hospice providers are entering a tougher regulatory environment. Oversight is increasing, audits and surveys are drawing more attention to day-to-day execution, and documentation is carrying more financial weight. Beyond regulation, these requirements also play an important role in making sure patients receive timely follow-up and symptom management when they need it most.


The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

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.


What Determines Success in EHR Add-On Acquisitions in Health Care

By April Miller – When health systems acquire electronic health record add-ons, end users typically have high expectations that these purchases will help them make better clinical decisions, improve patient care and speed up workflows. Yet to get the most out of these investments, hospitals must think carefully about their strategy.


The Data Is Always Right Even When We Don’t Like the Answer

By John Torontow – Physicians are trained to be questioners, seekers, and skeptics. This is usually a good thing, as skeptics tend not to accept the first or most obvious answer. And when their doctors are inspired to dig deeper, patients tend to feel like they’ve got someone on their side who really cares.