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Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: May 5, 2026

Striking Alignment Around Health Tech Investments

Healthcare leaders have a plethora of priorities to balance. Between patient care, outcomes, access and equity; labor shortages and staff burnout; care coordination across specialties and settings; the impact of inflation on the bottom line; and the rapidly advancing array of tools used to address all these needs — the modern healthcare juggling act is...

Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: May 5, 2026

Nursing Home Software: Shifting from Clinical Documentation to Care Coordination

What do you think is the biggest impediment to successful transitions of care from hospitals to a skilled nursing facility (SNF)? If you said, “incomplete patient information,” you’re not alone.While about 80% of SNFs have adopted electronic health records (EHR), true interoperability remains elusive, creating dangerous gaps in data sharing. A recent survey of 471...

Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: May 5, 2026

The Cost of Doing Nothing: What Manual Workflows Really Cost Skilled Nursing

Many skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) still rely on manual workflows, and they cost more than you think.The reason for using these processes isn’t resistance to change. Instead, it’s a lack of interoperability. Even though 8 in 10 post-acute facilities use electronic health records (EHRs) regularly, data sharing remains a challenge. When EHRs don’t connect across...

Blog in Thought Leadership

Updated on: July 23, 2025

MUSE 2025: Innovation, Connection, and Giving Back

The recent MUSE Inspire Conference, held from May 27-30 in Dallas, Texas, was a resounding success. This year’s event promoted insightful conversations, showcased groundbreaking solutions, and fostered valuable connections within the MEDITECH community. It was truly inspiring to witness the collective commitment to transforming healthcare delivery and improving patient outcomes.A cornerstone of the MUSE Conference...

Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: May 5, 2026

SNFs Are the Blind Spot in Healthcare Interoperability

A 78-year-old Medicare patient is discharged from the hospital to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) after hip surgery. The hospital’s electronic health record (EHR) system contains detailed notes about her new medication regimen, her mobility restrictions, and a pending cardiac consultation. But when she arrives at the SNF two hours later, her care team receives a...

Blog in Thought Leadership

Updated on: May 5, 2026

Innovating Around AI: The Shift Towards Integration and Real-World Impact

Artificial intelligence (AI) emerged as the star of the show at HIMSS earlier this year. It was impossible to ignore the influence of AI on every emerging tool and solution touted at the show as HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf jokingly challenged attendees to find 10 booths on the exhibit floor that didn’t mention AI. The dialogue...

Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: May 5, 2026

How to Close Care Coordination Gaps With Interoperable Cloud Faxing

Upon a patient’s discharge from a hospital, the care team faxed a 40-page transition-of-care document to the patient’s cardiologist. But the fax sat in a bin inside the cardiologist’s office for three days before being manually entered into the provider’s electronic health record (EHR). During that time, no one realized that the patient had been...

Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: April 1, 2026

Choosing the Right EMR Software: A Buyer’s Guide for Healthcare Practices

Selecting the right electronic medical records (EMR) software can seem daunting for healthcare practice leaders. The solution must be easy to use. It has to keep patient data secure. Most importantly, it must help everyone in your practice — providers, registrars, coders, and billers — do their jobs faster with reliable and accurate data. Where to...

Blog in Thought Leadership

Updated on: May 5, 2026

5 Keys to Digital Transformation in Healthcare

Hospitals and health systems “cannot function today without embracing digital health transformation at some level,” a HIMSS analysis states. The road to digital value varies: Every healthcare organization’s digital transformation journey takes a different path, depending on their starting point, their end goals, and the resources they have available along the way. Yet despite the many...

Blog in Data & Technology

Updated on: December 16, 2025

Best Practices for Data Governance in Healthcare

“Data governance” feels like a buzzword. You can imagine a boardroom full of executives nodding sagely while PowerPoint slides flash by, filled with abstract concepts and compliance checkboxes. But strip away the jargon, and data governance is fundamentally about real people. Patients whose medical histories, genetic information, and most vulnerable moments are captured in databases and...

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