Agentic AI Meets Specialty Care: How an Orthopedic Practice Is Simplifying Post-Surgical Care
Michigan Orthopedic Center, an 11‑surgeon private practice in Lansing, partnered with AI vendor IntelePeer to launch a voice‑based Clinical Assessment Agent. The tool conducts post‑surgical patient interviews, captures pain, wound and medication data, and automatically generates clinical summaries for the EHR. By handling routine triage calls, the AI reduces staff call time and eases the practice’s staffing constraints. The collaboration highlights how specialty clinics can adopt tailored, compliance‑focused AI to improve efficiency and patient engagement.
7 Challenges, Best Practices for ERP Data Migration
Implementing a new ERP system hinges on moving legacy data without loss, yet organizations routinely confront format incompatibilities, tangled hierarchies, and deteriorating data quality. These obstacles can produce inaccurate reporting, operational delays, and costly post‑go‑live fixes. Executives who sponsor the...
How to Prevent Employee Burnout: The Essentials
Employee burnout is a growing concern for CHROs, driven in part by the always‑on expectations of digital tools. The article highlights how technology can both exacerbate stress—through constant video calls and messaging—and serve as a mitigation tool when used wisely....
8 AI Costs Leaders Don't Always Budget for but Should
Enterprises often focus on AI infrastructure, licensing and cloud costs, but eight hidden expenses can dwarf those line‑item budgets. Failed pilots, endless experimentation, retrofitted governance, talent turnover, human‑in‑the‑loop oversight, model drift, inference lock‑in, and reputational risk each add sizable, hard‑to‑measure...
AI Scribe Note Quality Under Question as Adoption Grows
AI-powered clinical scribes are gaining traction as a solution to physician documentation overload, but a new vendor‑neutral study published in JAMA Network Open finds the AI‑generated notes lag behind clinician‑written ones in thoroughness, organization, and clinical usefulness. Researchers evaluated 11...
5 Steps of an ERP Implementation Communication Plan
Effective change management hinges on a solid communication plan during ERP implementations. The article outlines five steps—establishing a timeline, curating detail, aligning stakeholders, enabling feedback, and transparently reporting problems—to keep employees informed and accountable. By assigning clear responsibilities and tailoring...
Mitigating Shadow AI Use Among Clinicians as Demand Grows
Clinicians are increasingly turning to unsanctioned generative AI tools, with a Wolters Kluwer Health survey finding 40% have encountered shadow AI and nearly 20% have used it. These tools expose health systems to hallucination‑driven clinical errors, heightened data‑security threats, and erosion of...
AI Is Fundamentally Transforming Organizations
Enterprises are in the early stages of an AI‑driven transformation that is reshaping roles, processes, and cost structures. CIOs are struggling to convert AI hype into measurable ROI, often mis‑treating it as a pure technology problem rather than an organizational...
Attackers Targeting Storage Infrastructure for Remote Work
Threat actors are shifting focus from endpoints to storage infrastructure, exploiting on‑premises and cloud storage vulnerabilities to steal data, deploy ransomware, and destroy backups. The move is driven by the high value of consolidated data—personal information, IP, AI training sets,...
Top 10 Vector Database Use Cases Across Industries
Vector databases have shifted from a niche AI component to a core enterprise tool, enabling similarity‑based retrieval of text, images, audio, and other unstructured data. By representing information as high‑dimensional embeddings, they power applications ranging from natural‑language processing and fraud...
Telehealth Playbook Aims to Bolster Rural Hospitals Amid Funding Crisis
Rural hospitals are confronting a perfect storm of workforce shortages, declining patient volumes and a looming $1 trillion cut to Medicaid and ACA funding under H.R. 1. To counteract these pressures, Congress launched the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, earmarking funds for...
Facing Financial Headwinds, Health Systems Prioritize Patient Loyalty
Mid‑2026 data from Kaufman Hall shows hospital margins slipping as Medicaid reforms and Medicare site‑neutral payments tighten revenue streams. In response, health systems are shifting from merely measuring patient satisfaction to treating patient loyalty as a core financial lever. Executives...
Georgia Tech Builds Network Sandbox to Test Hospital Cyber Defenses
Georgia Tech secured up to $12 million from ARPA‑H’s UPGRADE program to launch the Hospital‑Integrated Vulnerability Identification and Proactive Remediation (H‑VIPER) project. The initiative builds a whole‑hospital network sandbox that lets IT teams test patches and remediation strategies without disrupting patient...
10 AI-Driven Network Management Tasks
Artificial intelligence has moved from experimental tools to core components of network operations, enabling AIOps platforms to automate ten key management tasks such as anomaly detection, event correlation, and telemetry analysis. Vendors now leverage machine‑learning models that continuously learn normal...
Data Governance Metrics: Measure Success, Identify Issues
The article outlines a comprehensive framework for measuring data governance success through six distinct metric categories: operational, data quality, availability and usage, security and privacy, stewardship, and literacy. It emphasizes that tracking these KPIs not only validates the business value...