By Erica Olenski – At the 2025 CHIME Fall Forum, the usual focus on technical architecture, AI, and cybersecurity was still present, but something deeper took center stage. Conversations kept returning to trust, safety, and resilience as essential foundations for digital transformation. This piece reflects on the event through these themes, examining leadership, human-centered design, and system accountability.
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By David Talby – Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) coding supports risk scores that drive Medicare Advantage and other value-based payments. With more than half of Medicare beneficiaries now enrolled in Medicare Advantage for 2025 (that equates to roughly 35.7 million people), precision in coding directly affects financial performance and compliance.
By Karin Hayes – Pharma marketing is evolving beyond traditional, one-size-fits-all approaches toward more personalized, data-driven engagement that truly connects with today’s consumers. Data now fuels smarter engagement, empowering patients to take a more active role in their care, giving providers deeper insight into treatment decisions, and ultimately improving outcomes.
By Zac Amos – As the healthcare industry becomes increasingly reliant on digital databases and communication, the threat of cybersecurity attacks grows. Patient portals are a particularly popular target for attackers because of the sensitive information they contain. To protect patient information, providers must know how to prevent credential stuffing attacks.
By Ivor Campbell – The medical technology sector has long been characterized as the steady, reliable engine of the life sciences world. A sector offering consistent growth, without the wild volatility and boom-or-bust narratives of biotech or the frothy hype of digital health, it may be seen by some as “vanilla”, but it also has the benefit of being robust.
By Ashish Singh – The Missing Foundation of Digital Health ROI in Asia Pacific and the Middle East – Across Asia Pacific and the Middle East, hospital digital strategy has been dominated by EMR upgrades, infrastructure refresh cycles, and pilot projects in AI and analytics. Investment capital is chasing complexity.
By April Miller – Artificial intelligence transforms how modern health care operates, bringing a new level of precision and confidence to the surgical environment. Analyzing real-time data, assisting with imaging and guiding robotic systems help surgeons perform with greater accuracy and consistency.
By Ellie Gabel – How RTLS Are Tracking More Than Just Patients – Real-time location systems have become essential to modern hospital operations, providing instant visibility into the movement of patients, staff and assets across complex health care environments. While traditionally viewed as a patient-flow management tool, RTLS has evolved into a powerful engine for supply chain visibility.
By Jim Foote – As cancer becomes the #1 killer of men and the #2 killer of women under 50, with two million new cancer diagnoses and more than 600,000 deaths projected for 2025, oncologists are racing to find tools that can transform biological complexity into clinical clarity.