By Dafe Ofoh – Healthcare organizations often evaluate interoperability by asking whether data can move from one system to another. That is necessary, but it is not enough. A workflow is not complete when information arrives. It is complete when the right person can see the evidence, understand the current state, make the required decision, and hand the work forward with a traceable record.
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By Steve Akers – Healthcare security programs were built around an assumption that no longer holds everywhere: that a human sits on the other end of an attack, working at human speed and making human mistakes. That is why the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, in a joint advisory this past June, told member nations plainly that the timeline for adversaries to reach this level of capability is not years. It is months.
By Mat Steinlin – According to the AMA’s 2026 Physician Survey on Augmented Intelligence, over 80% now use AI in a professional context (roughly double the share reported in 2023). The same survey found physicians are significantly more concerned about patient privacy when using non-institutional AI tools (71%) than institutional ones (42%).
By Nikhil Bavaskar – Artificial intelligence is entering a new age of health care. Hospitals and health systems have been deploying AI in recent years to summarize clinical notes, automate administrative work, and enhance patient communication. These tools have shown measurable improvement in clinicians and staff completing tasks faster.
By Ubaid Pisuwala – SMART on FHIR pilots often pass sandbox testing, then fail in production. Here’s what token refresh, per-site approval, and scope handling actually require.
By Adam Z. Kawalek MD – It’s flu season in America. On a Tuesday morning, two workers are hit with the same virus. One is a salaried engineer at a tech start-up, and the other is a sorter in a fulfillment warehouse. Same illness, same city, same conservative management at home. The administrative difference, however, is profound and can cost one of them a paycheck and eventually a job.
By Mark Ferrari – Healthcare has gotten very good at producing third-party risk scores. We have platforms, dashboards, questionnaires, and assessments that can generate a number for almost any vendor relationship. Leaders like scores. They are simple. They are comparable. They fit into a dashboard and offer a way to simplify the risk of a vendor population that keeps growing.
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By Sandra Johnson – There is a better way, one that allows systems to obtain new EHRs with more transparent financial impact. The System as a Service (SYaaS) solution offers a more predictable and manageable approach that delivers all the benefits of a modern EHR but without the enormous upfront costs and additional expenses that can add millions to the investment.