By Natosha McNeal – Agentic orchestration is what makes scale achievable. It sets the boundaries an agent operates within and records every step it takes, with a clinician or compliance check built in wherever the stakes call for it. This allows AI to take on real work while the people accountable for it remain in control.
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By Nargiza Noimann Zander – Digital mental health programs should be judged by whether they expand access and contribute to appropriate care. Engagement is part of that assessment, but it should never be asked to carry the full weight of clinical success.
By Christy Winter – For decades, paper-based authorizations have stalled the healthcare industry, creating administrative backlogs for care teams and critical treatment delays for patients. On average, practices spend 13 hours each week completing 40 prior authorizations per clinician, a massive administrative burden that diverts nearly 700 hours from patient care annually.
By Angel Mena MD – The health systems that reinforce their operational foundation with consolidated tools, shared data, and regularly examined workflows will be better positioned to deploy AI, maximize its potential, and be more resilient for the industry regulations and financial pressures ahead.
By Lionel Litty – The incidents that slip past an organization’s defenses show up as a routine email, an ordinary link, or a file that looks exactly like the hundreds of legitimate ones an employee opens every week. Across healthcare organizations, security teams are discovering that attacks bypassing every layer of their stack trace back to the same entry point: the browser session.
By Jim Kirk – Healthcare organizations are gaining more visibility into their cybersecurity risks, but identifying vulnerabilities is only the first step. Fortified Health Security’s 2026 Mid-Year Horizon Report examines the growing gap between risk detection and remediation, and the foundational areas healthcare leaders must prioritize to strengthen cyber resilience.
By Brian Robertson -To improve revenue cycle management (RCM) through AI, organizations first have to change how they see the revenue cycle itself. RCM is no longer operational support. It is a core driver of enterprise strategy, corner office and all.
By Melissa Kotrys – Healthcare interoperability has made meaningful progress, but gaps remain between the national vision and the realities of local health information exchange. Achieving truly seamless, accessible data sharing requires national and local initiatives to work together, ensuring progress translates into meaningful impact for the communities and organizations that rely on it.
By April Miller – Managing medical facilities requires coordinating finance, procurement and patient-facing operations across complex systems. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms can centralize these functions and provide healthcare leaders with stronger operational visibility to control costs and allocate resources effectively.