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Addressing Shadow AI: An Insider Threat to Data Security

One of the greatest cybersecurity threats to your health system today might not be a sophisticated external bad actor. Instead, it is likely a well-intentioned clinician sitting at a nurse’s station, frustrated by a backlog of paperwork. Driven by a desire to improve patient throughput, they copy and paste unprotected patient health information into a...
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3 Data Pitfalls and How Providers Are Addressing Them: Takeaways from HIMSS and ViVE 2026

At this year’s HIMSS and ViVE conferences, one theme came through consistently: healthcare’s digital transformation is accelerating, but the underlying data infrastructure isn’t always keeping pace.Through my conversations, I found that many organizations are facing the same core challenges as they expand their AI, interoperability, and cloud initiatives. Here are three of the most pressing...
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The Hidden Speed Bump in Healthcare: Solving the Unstructured Data Crisis

At RSNA 2025, it became clear that the future of healthcare AI is less about showy algorithms and more about pragmatic, real-world integration – particularly when it comes to efficiency in clinical workflows. While attendees admired next-generation diagnostic tools and advanced imaging analytics, the conversations that resonated most were about tackling unstructured data. Marianne Soucy, Solutions...
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Governance-Led AI: The New Filter for 2026 Budgets

The freewheeling days of healthcare AI spending are over, but not because AI failed to deliver. Health systems remain bullish on AI use cases and their ROI potential. What’s changing in 2026, however, is how those investments are evaluated.As providers face a multitude of macroeconomic concerns, IT budgets are coming under scrutiny, and money for...
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How to Maximize Healthcare AI ROI by Automating Referral Workflows

A recent MIT report found that despite billions of dollars of investment into new AI solutions, 95% of organizations are seeing no measurable ROI related to this popular technology. One of the primary barriers to a strong return is that many AI tools don’t integrate directly with a healthcare organization’s existing technology stack. Fragmented, complex digital...
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Reflecting on the 2025 Government Shutdown: How to Mitigate Workflow Disruptions with Digital Cloud Faxing

On October 1, 2025 the federal government entered what is now considered the longest government shutdown in U.S. history after Congress failed to pass the necessary appropriations bills to fund government operations for the new fiscal year. This impasse led to a lapse in funding for numerous federal agencies, triggering the immediate furlough of non-essential...
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What FedRAMP High Really Means for Federal Agencies

The pressure is on federal agencies to get more efficient, and agency leaders are feeling the squeeze. That’s where FedRAMP®-authorized solutions make a difference. Instead of spending months or even years running your own security assessments, your agency can select from solutions that are already vetted and approved.But not all FedRAMP cloud service offerings are...
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What Is FedRAMP and FedRAMP Compliance?

Cloud solutions like electronic faxing offer modern, digital workflows for federal agencies and their workers. But each time an agency implements a new solution, it must run security assessments to confirm the service meets the required standards. This process can take weeks or months.FedRAMP® authorization simplifies this arduous task by providing a common framework and...
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Enterprise Cloud Fax Technology by Consensus Cloud Solutions Receives FedRAMP® High Authorized Status

Consensus Cloud Solutions’ Enterprise Cloud Fax Government (ECFax®) technology has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®) authorization at the High Impact level. This designation, given to cloud-based solutions proven to meet the highest federal data security standards, positions ECFax as the FedRAMP High cloud-based faxing system of choice available to government agencies.ECFax, powered...