Missing the Point: Isolation Alone Will Not Build AI Safety
Treating AI agents like contract nurses and minimizing their access to critical patient information certainly reduces potential risk. But, it also minimizes key opportunities.
CMS Is Regulating the Wrong Thing — Here’s How to Fix Remote Patient Monitoring Without Losing the Care
Why should Medicare determine who is qualified to provide remote monitoring by asking who employs the nurse, rather than who is accountable for the patient's care?
The Power Behind Enterprise EHR Software for Large Healthcare Systems
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
What the Midterms Mean for Healthcare and the Investors Betting on It
One question on everyone’s mind is what the impact of the midterm elections will be on the US healthcare system in the near and long term - here are 3 possible outcomes
Prestige Is a Business Model
An employer that treats board disclosure, community benefit reporting, and contracting terms as three separate conversations is missing that they are the same conversation.
A Meaningful Signal on Palliative Care – But Not Yet a Benefit
CMS asked the right questions - the ones that will determine whether any future benefit actually reaches these patients.
A Market, Not a Mandate, Is the Fastest Way to Bring AI Into Hospitals
The cost of waiting is not evenly distributed. Rural and critical access hospitals report under 50 percent adoption of even basic predictive tools, compared with 86 percent among top-tier system-affiliated hospitals. Every year without a bridge widens that gap, and it widens it fastest for the hospitals with the least room to absorb it.
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From Blind Spots to Better Outcomes: How SNF Data Transparency Strengthens LTSS
What if health plans could identify member decline before an avoidable hospitalization occurs? Real-time clinical visibility into long-stay SNF members uncovers risk earlier and drives better outcomes.
In a Maternity Care Crisis, CMS Undermines Efforts To Modernize Care
CMS has introduced uncertainty about whether Medicare will participate in that modernization or preserve the old system under a different name. The consequences extend far beyond billing
Congress’s Patient Matching Fix Won’t Work — Here’s What Would
The MATCH IT Act aims to reduce patient matching errors. But a model used by vital records systems could provide a better solution.
The Antibiotics Exist —The System Cannot Deliver Them
This is not a discovery problem. It is a market entry and access problem, and it is far more tractable than the pipeline crisis we spend most of our attention on.
Medicare Policy Shouldn’t Be Made in the Shadows
Medicare policy should be transparent and include appropriate notice and stakeholder input. And when a contractor gets it wrong, there should be a clear and rapid way to stop the harm to patients, their relationship with their doctor and the doctor’s practice.
Why Pharma Companies Should Look To Social Media For Better Patient Insight
Healthcare decision-makers, especially at pharmaceutical companies, must prioritize patient input. Data collected from social media listening is a significant step in the right direction.
The Illegal Drug Marketplace in Your Patients’ Pockets
Patients obtaining drugs through social media, medical spas, or telehealth platforms are not the same as patients obtaining drugs through more traditional illicit channels because they often believe what they are receiving is a clinically validated product. This means they may present with unexplained symptoms without realizing their online purchase is even relevant to the conversation
Fifty Years of Pediatric Rheumatology, but Children Still Can’t Access the Treatments They Need
As a country, we have developed treatments capable of improving the quality of life and preventing long-term damage for children with rheumatic conditions, yet many children cannot obtain them when they need them most. This needs to change.
From OpenNotes to “Doc Can I Record You?” Why Physicians Should Embrace Era of Accountability
Healthcare has a habit of embracing patient empowerment right up until patients become powerful.
Modernizing Medicare Advantage for the Next Generation of Seniors
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took constructive steps in its 2027 final rule and rate announcement, particularly on payment integrity and quality measurement. But those steps are not the finish line. Policymakers should further modernize MA to strengthen competition, transparency and accountability. Here’s where to start.
The Nurse Is Health Care’s Most Underpriced Founder
They see the problem first, build the fix, and decide whether it is ever adopted. The market has trained them to hide the one credential that de-risks the deal.