Nearly two-thirds of healthcare leaders say their IT infrastructure is not prepared to manage future risk. As AI investments rise, foundational readiness gaps are becoming harder and more costly to ignore. Drawing on a global survey of healthcare executives and…
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Scottsdale, Ariz.-based HonorHealth has finalized its acquisition of 11 Evernorth Care Group, part of Cigna Group, Jan. 2. Here are four things to know: 1. HonorHealth agreed to acquire Evernorth Care Group in early September. At the time, Evernorth operated…
Autonomy is a core issue for both independent and employed physicians as they navigate an increasingly complex, corporate and politicized healthcare system. Here are five notes regarding how physicians feel about their level of autonomy in different practice settings and…
Flexible staffing can enhance agility, but without the right design, it can strain teams and budgets. In today’s healthcare environment, leaders are increasingly pairing per diem staffing with centralized float pools and technology to optimize coverage, reduce administrative burden and…
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Erin Shadbolt
CEO, Ascension Living
Liz Cunningham
SVP and leader of WorkWise, Workforce Solutions, AMN Healthcare
The California Medical Association is speaking out against the CDC’s recent revisions to the U.S. childhood immunization schedule. The changes reduced the number of routine recommendations from 18 to 11 following a December directive from President Donald Trump to compare…
A former physician has been sentenced to 10 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for seeking medical employment using a stolen identity, according to a Jan. 5 Justice Department news release. What happened?
2025 exposed hard truths: Denials surged. Trust collapsed. And affordability became the dominant barrier to care, not just on the Exchange and among the uninsured, but across Medicare Advantage and commercial plans alike. This 2026 outlook unpacks the forces reshaping…
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Academic health systems are entering a defining decade. Many are expanding rapidly through mergers, affiliations and new service lines. But with scale comes risk: fragmentation, mission drift and uneven progress on access and equity. This whitepaper features insights from 11…
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The number of healthcare data breaches has trended upward over the last 14 years, according to a Jan. 4 report by The HIPAA Journal. The HIPAA Journal published data on the occurrence of data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals…
Orthopedic and musculoskeletal (MSK) practices are entering a new era of revenue cycle pressure — one defined by coding complexity, chronic staffing shortages, and rapidly shifting payer requirements. These forces are converging to create a perfect storm: rising denial rates,…
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