Why Clinical Care Resilience Is a Top Priority in Healthcare
Healthcare leaders warn that cyber‑threats and system failures can cripple clinical operations, making care‑resilience a top priority. Recent ransomware incidents at Michigan Medicine, University of Vermont Health Network, and Children’s National illustrate the need for cross‑departmental planning and frequent security exercises. CDW’s Mike Grisamore emphasizes combining technical safeguards with non‑technical preparations, such as inventory management and cash‑flow contingencies. Organizations are urged to partner with experienced vendors to test and refine resilience strategies.
AI in Rural and Critical Access Healthcare: Closing the Technology Gap
Rural and critical access hospitals lag behind larger systems in adopting generative and agentic AI because half operate at a deficit and have thin IT staff. Experts recommend starting with narrow, revenue‑cycle problems such as claim‑denial processing, where AI can...
A Look Into an Upcoming AI-Powered Surgical Performance Center
A new AI‑powered Surgical Performance Center, built around OMNIMED’s SmartOR platform, is set to transform operating‑room training. The system fuses 3D video, audio and environmental sensors to generate objective performance baselines for surgeons and support staff. An integrated AI agent...
How Healthcare Organizations Can Go From Technical Debt to a Hybrid Infrastructure That Supports Innovation
Healthcare providers are wrestling with aging IT assets that create security risks and impede patient care. Executives at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Mercy argue that moving suitable applications to the cloud transforms technical debt into a strategic...
From Call Center to Care Center: How Hospitals Mature in Their Approach to Patient Experience
Hospitals are moving from traditional call centers to integrated care centers to meet rising patient‑experience expectations. Fragmented legacy systems create long wait times, while AI‑driven routing, CRM/EHR integration, and omnichannel tools streamline interactions. The shift delivers measurable ROI by cutting...
FDA Tightens Its Medical Device Cybersecurity Guidance for Manufacturers
The FDA has issued updated cybersecurity guidance for medical devices through Section 524B, imposing stricter lifecycle security requirements. Manufacturers must now provide a software bill of materials, manage component risks, and adopt secure development processes. The guidance forces hospitals, federal agencies...
How Can More Efficient Data Sharing Improve Patient Care Plans?
Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) let clinicians, pharmacists and patients securely share vital medical data electronically, boosting care speed, safety and cost efficiency. Yet each HIE often uses its own data format, leading to fragmented records when patients see multiple providers....
The Building Blocks of Data Literacy for Healthcare
Dean Burrill of CDW argues that data literacy is the foundation for trustworthy AI in healthcare. He stresses that organizations must know what data they have, its quality, and its sensitivity before feeding it into AI models. Effective data governance...
What Are Rural Healthcare IT Priorities In a Changing Funding Landscape?
Rural healthcare organizations are bracing for reduced Medicaid funding while eyeing the $10 billion‑per‑year Rural Health Transformation Program. Tight cash reserves are driving IT leaders to prioritize short‑term resilience, cost‑cutting measures and rapid‑ROI technologies such as AI‑enabled documentation, cloud migration, and...
The Connected Care Continuum: Enhancing Patient Care Across Settings
Healthcare providers are accelerating the shift toward a connected care continuum that spans hospitals, ambulatory clinics, post‑acute facilities and the home. Leaders at NewYork‑Presbyterian and PointClickCare stress that seamless, standardized data—delivered through integrated EHRs and modern APIs—must be actionable across...
CTEM for Healthcare: A Guide to Continuous Threat Exposure Management
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a Gartner‑originated framework that shifts healthcare cybersecurity from periodic, patch‑centric vulnerability programs to real‑time, threat‑informed risk mitigation. CrowdStrike’s field CTO Cristian Rodriguez highlights that CTEM correlates exposures with exploitability, adversary behavior, and business impact,...
How to Address Shadow AI in Healthcare
Healthcare organizations are confronting a new wave of shadow IT, now termed shadow AI, where staff adopt generative AI tools without oversight. The article outlines three mitigation strategies: establishing robust AI governance, deploying technical guardrails such as monitoring and sandbox...
HIMSS26: Optimize Hybrid Infrastructure To Accelerate Healthcare Innovation
At HIMSS26, HealthTech highlighted the critical role of hybrid infrastructure in scaling AI initiatives across healthcare. On‑prem data centers deliver low‑latency inferencing, while the cloud supplies on‑demand compute power for flexible workloads. Leaders emphasized workload placement decisions that prioritize patient...
Understanding AI Inferencing at the Edge in Healthcare
Lenovo announced three new servers at CES 2026 designed for AI inferencing at the edge, specifically targeting healthcare environments. The devices enable large language models to run locally on low‑power hardware, cutting latency and avoiding cloud round‑trips. By processing sensor and...
HIMSS26: Understanding Clinical Care Resilience as an Ongoing Process
At HIMSS26, healthcare leaders emphasized that clinical care resilience must be an ongoing process, not a one‑time fix. Amazon Web Services highlighted the limitations of reverting to paper charting during EHR outages, noting many clinicians lack training. Sentara Health described...
HIMSS26: The Risks and Rewards of Agentic Artificial Intelligence
At HIMSS26, healthcare leaders highlighted the promise of agentic artificial intelligence to automate routine tasks such as prior authorizations, scheduling, and patient outreach. They warned that the technology’s independent decision‑making can introduce workflow risks if left unchecked. Effective deployment hinges...
HIMSS
Microsoft unveiled Dragon Copilot, an AI‑driven assistant designed to slash clinicians’ administrative workload. The tool integrates with leading electronic health record systems, using natural‑language processing to auto‑populate charts, orders, and billing codes. Demonstrated at HIMSS25, Dragon Copilot promises up to...
Create A Holistic Strategy for Hospitals
Health leaders are adopting a holistic, whole‑person strategy that treats hospital functions as an interconnected ecosystem. The article highlights three flagship initiatives: City of Hope’s AI‑driven documentation platform, UMass Memorial Health’s smart‑room virtual‑care hub, and Catholic Health’s new Patient Care...
Cloud-Based EHR Systems: Achieving Security and Migration Success
Cloud‑based electronic health records (EHR) are replacing costly on‑premises systems, as illustrated by Franciscan Health’s migration to Azure. The shift enables pay‑as‑you‑go pricing, continuous vendor‑managed software updates, and built‑in backup and disaster‑recovery capabilities. Security is now designed from the ground...
Eaton Bolsters Hospital Defenses as Healthcare Cybersecurity Act Arrives
Eaton announced a suite of infrastructure‑focused cybersecurity solutions to help hospitals comply with the Healthcare Cybersecurity Act of 2025. The portfolio includes network‑managed UPS systems, a gigabit Network M3 Card with secure boot and traffic filtering, and the Brightlayer digital power‑management...
ViVE 2026: The Federal Policies and Priorities Shaping Healthcare IT
The federal government unveiled a $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, allocating $10 billion per year to states for preventive care, workforce development, and technology upgrades. HHS also announced stricter enforcement of information‑blocking rules, creating a portal for patient‑data complaints. Simultaneously, officials...
Healthcare Deals 2025: Notable Mergers & Acquisitions Activity
Healthcare M&A activity surged in 2025, with financial distress driving a record 43% of transactions. Regulatory scrutiny intensified, highlighted by California’s new law tightening oversight of private‑equity deals. Major deals included UnitedHealth’s $3.3 billion acquisition of Amedisys, Baptist Memorial’s $55 million purchase of...
ViVE 2026: Change Management Is Key in Clinical Adoption of AI
At ViVE 2026, Tampa General Hospital highlighted that change management, not technology, is the primary barrier to clinical AI adoption among nurses. The hospital detailed its partnership with Microsoft to deploy an AI assistant that automatically populates custom nursing flow...
Q&A: Nemours Children’s Health Expands Pediatric Care at Home
Nemours Children’s Health launched the Advanced Care at Home program, a virtual, technology‑enabled service that lets medically stable pediatric patients recover at home while receiving 24/7 clinical support. The model leverages Epic MyChart and a centralized command center to deliver...
The Future of Senior Living Requires Better Care Coordination
PointClickCare’s senior‑care chief medical officer warns that senior‑living occupancy has surged to 90‑95%, rendering the old fee‑for‑service, staff‑driven model untenable. The industry must move from reactive emergency‑department transfers to proactive, in‑place care coordination. Success hinges on comprehensive digital resident records,...
ViVE
ViVE 2025 convened leading health‑tech innovators to examine how security, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies are reshaping digital health. Speakers highlighted AI‑driven diagnostics, robust cybersecurity frameworks, and interoperable platforms as essential for scaling patient‑centric care. The event also showcased...
How Health Systems Reduce the Strain of Documentation Burden
Health systems are turning to cloud‑based generative AI to slash documentation overload. City of Hope deployed HopeLLM, an agentic large‑language‑model platform that creates concise medical‑history summaries in minutes, freeing clinicians from nightly “pajama time.” Providence built Provaria on Azure, using...
Protecting a Healthcare Facility From All Angles
Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation is piloting an AI‑driven predictive tool that scores inpatient threat levels using EHR data, social determinants and real‑time updates, alerting clinicians through the electronic health record. The system gives staff early awareness of potentially violent...
How Smart Hospitals Push Forward From Pilot to Practice
Smart hospital rooms equipped with interactive displays, sensors, and AI are moving from pilot projects to core infrastructure in new builds and retrofits. The global market, valued at $67 billion in 2024, is expected to nearly triple by 2030 as health...
Partnerships Push Innovation in the Aging Tech Space
The 2025 LeadingAge Annual Meeting highlighted the need to involve older adults directly in testing and adopting new care technologies. Louisville’s Thrive Center, partnered with CDW Healthcare and Asbury Communities, provides a functional smart‑home lab where seniors can trial solutions...
Review: Box Facilitates Secure Collaboration for Healthcare Workers
Box Intelligent Content Management delivers a cloud‑based, zero‑trust platform tailored for healthcare’s strict security and compliance needs. The solution unifies over 1,500 integrations, enabling seamless collaboration between Office 365, Google Workspace and other systems while providing built‑in e‑signatures and workflow automation....
Getting Smart With Virtual Assistants in Healthcare
Mayo Clinic launched an in‑house Nurse Virtual Assistant, a generative AI tool that instantly curates patient records and policy information for nurses. The initiative demonstrates a problem‑first approach, targeting clinician workflow inefficiencies rather than shoehorning technology. The article expands the...
A Guide to Cloud Cost Optimization in Healthcare
Healthcare providers are grappling with rising, unpredictable cloud costs as AI‑driven workloads expand. Experts from AWS and Trend Micro stress a hybrid approach, placing latency‑critical patient data on‑premises while leveraging cloud elasticity for analytics and AI training. Successful cost control...