Category: Thought Leadership

Blog in Data & Technology
Updated on: August 19, 2026

Rural America’s Healthcare Crisis: The Top 10 Most Vulnerable States

In Texas, fifty rural hospitals are at risk of closure. That is more than any other state in the country. Behind Texas, in descending order: Kansas (44), Tennessee (27), Georgia (25), and Mississippi (24).Behind those numbers is a typical Friday afternoon at a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) that takes patients from those vulnerable hospitals. The...
Blog in Data & Technology
Updated on: August 6, 2026

Migrating to the Cloud: Closing the Hidden PHI Security Gaps in Outdated Federal Fax Workflows

Federal agencies continue to rely on fax as a trusted method for transmitting sensitive information, especially protected health information (PHI). In federal health agencies and programs, fax remains deeply embedded in workflows, and the assumption has long been that fax is inherently secure. However, that assumption doesn’t reflect how fax is used today. Transmissions may be...
Blog in Data & Technology
Updated on: July 29, 2026

The IaaS Gap: Why Federal Agencies Are Betting Big on SaaS Solutions

Federal agencies have moved aggressively toward the cloud, but not all cloud models deliver the same outcomes. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) has solved many legacy infrastructure challenges, but it can also produce critical gaps in security, compliance, and operations.Agencies have realized that migrating to the cloud is only part of the solution. It’s how that cloud is...
Blog in Data & Technology
Updated on: April 30, 2026

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...
Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability
Updated on: May 12, 2026

The Great Cloud Fax Migration: Strategic Insights

The debate over the future of healthcare communication is officially settled. Healthcare isn’t abandoning the fax – it’s elevating it to the cloud. According to a recent independent study by Sage Growth Partners, 90% of healthcare leaders are actively engaged in the cloud fax market. The research reveals that 40% of organizations have already adopted...
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Updated on: April 10, 2026

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...
Blog in Thought Leadership
Updated on: May 13, 2026

Margins vs. Mission: A Convincing Case for Tech Modernization in Rural Health

The industry is currently facing a pivotal transition in 2026, bracing for the expected impact of Medicaid cutbacks, shrinking reimbursements, staffing challenges, and operational costs that continue to soar. With a predicted tsunami of uncompensated care expenses, many healthcare leaders are constantly forced to weigh financial survival (“margin”) against a commitment to serving vulnerable populations...
Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability
Updated on: May 5, 2026

How Intelligent Document Processing Helps Imaging Centers Beat the Radiologist Shortage

Delayed diagnostic reports and growing backlogs represent more than an operational headache; they are a direct threat to patient outcomes and an imaging center’s financial health. As the national radiologist shortage intensifies, the pressure on imaging centers to maintain high-quality, timely care has reached a critical point.As a nurse who moved into product leadership, I...
Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability
Updated on: November 25, 2025

Top 3 Takeaways from HLTH 2025

By now, it should go without saying that AI will be a dominant theme at any healthcare conference, and HLTH 2025 was no exception. On the first day of the conference, which drew more than 12,000 attendees, the chief physician executive of the American Hospital Association joked that his panel discussion had to hit a...