Across Optum Health, Optum Insight and Optum Rx, 2025 marked a pivot from years of rapid expansion to focusing on value-based care and operational consistency. Here are seven ways Optum’s strategy shifted in 2025: 1. Refocusing on a core value-based…
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Data breaches and ransomware attacks are costing the healthcare industry billions every year. Despite growing attention to this area, health systems have a significant gap in their potential cyberattack surface: network-connectable medical devices. These assets are already prevalent in clinical…
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When a prospective patient searches for dental care, outdated SEO tactics and disjointed online listings can send the wrong signal — or no signal at all. AI-powered search engines now weigh factors beyond keywords. They’re looking at trust signals like…
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Rita Zamora
Owner, Connect90 Social Media Marketing for Dentists
Eleven physicians joined Becker’s to discuss the biggest threats physicians will face next year. Among the threats they cited were longstanding issues such as erosion of public trust to reimbursement declines. Yet, others saw more emergent ones stemming from workforce…
Despite being the financial backbone of hospitals, operating rooms remain riddled with inefficiencies: idle robots, unclaimed block time, reactive staffing and costly delays. This is the OR efficiency paradox. Hospitals have more surgical data than ever but still struggle to…
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The American Osteopathic Association has filed a lawsuit challenging a policy by the American Board of Internal Medicine that it claims “unfairly limits opportunities for both internal medicine physicians and residency and fellowship training programs.” According to a Dec. 4…
Lee Health has acquired Prime MD Naples (Fla.), marking its first primary care presence in the county, the Fort Myers, Fla.-based health system said in a Dec. 3 news release. The clinic, now operating as Family Medicine North Naples, offers…
Telehealth platforms powered by agentic AI, including virtual visits, remote patient monitoring, ambient clinical documentation and AI-driven triage face new and heightened cybersecurity risks in 2026, The AI Journal reported Dec. 2. These risks have become more serious as more…
Hospitals where nurses report “enough nurses to get the work done” have better physician outcomes, according to a recent study published in JAMA Network Open Nov. 17. Researchers drew on two clinician surveys covering 49 European hospitals and 56 U.S.…
Healthcare education is moving fast. Executives are under pressure to keep compliance airtight while building skills that reduce turnover and improve care. Traditional, course-first learning alone is not meeting the moment, especially as roles evolve and technology changes how people…
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Lindsey Dangerfield
Product Marketing Manager, HealthStream
Mickey Sisselman
Sr. Solution Executive, HealthStream