Rural Spotlight

February 5, 2026

Webinar: Beyond Survival: How Rural Hospitals Can Build Future-ready IT, March 25

Modernizing IT in rural Healthcare isn’t easy. Tight budgets, difficulty attracting and retaining skilled talent, and escalating cyber risks make it hard for rural hospitals to move beyond day-to-day survival.

This webinar examines how rural hospitals can modernize IT without breaking the bank. The focus is on how strategic partnerships and flexible leadership models can help organizations stabilize core systems, address risk and plan more effectively for the future.

Through real-world examples, attendees will learn how access to experienced IT leadership, enterprise-level capabilities and guidance on funding opportunities can support more sustainable decision-making. The session highlights practical approaches that help rural hospitals move from reactive IT management to more structured, future-ready planning.

Learning points:

• Why a long-term strategic IT partner is essential for rural hospitals,
• How full-time or fractional IT leadership supports expertise and continuity,
• Turning funding opportunities into actionable IT upgrades, and
• Real-world success stories in modernization and cyber resilience.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, March 25, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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February 5, 2026

Webinar: Inside OHSU’s Approach to Data-Driven Perioperative Staffing, March 18

Manual staffing processes and limited visibility into staff experience are quietly draining perioperative capacity across health systems.

Oregon Health & Science University faced these same challenges across 53 operating rooms. Leaders struggled with reactive staffing decisions, time-intensive coordination and inconsistent team assignments that made it harder to use staffed rooms effectively.

In this webinar, OHSU perioperative leaders share how they shifted from manual workflows to a data-driven staffing approach that improved utilization, strengthened team consistency and reclaimed more than 25 hours per week previously spent on staffing coordination.

Hear directly from OHSU leaders about what worked, what required change management and how they measured impact across perioperative services.

Attendees will learn:

• How OHSU reclaimed 25-plus hours per week from manual staffing coordination,
• Why improved visibility into staff experience matters for accurate assignments,
• How predictive analytics reduced last-minute staffing changes, and
• What drove a 5% improvement in staffed room utilization and 30% improvement in cross-training opportunities.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, March 18, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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February 5, 2026

Webinar: Stop the $1.2M Bleed: A Proven Roadmap to Physician Retention, February 12

Every physician departure costs health systems up to $1.2 million in recruitment, onboarding and lost productivity. For high-volume specialists, that number can be even higher. Yet many hospitals still lack a structured plan to improve engagement and retain clinical talent.

In this live session, Scott Polenz – a former hospital CEO and vice president of physician relations – shares practical, data-informed strategies to build trust, strengthen alignment and reduce turnover across the physician workforce.

You’ll learn:

• How to assess the financial impact of physician attrition and retention efforts,
• A step-by-step approach to aligning physicians with organizational culture and goals, and
• Practical tools to implement and sustain engagement strategies systemwide.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, February 12, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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February 5, 2026

Webinar: From Pilot to Proof: Building Virtual Health Programs That Pay Back, February 27

Virtual pilots often start with clear objectives, but too few deliver lasting value. Many stall without clear exit criteria.

This session brings together leaders from Carilion Clinic, Keck Medicine of USC, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, and Nuvance/Northwell Health to share how they’re redesigning pilots to ensure success is defined, measured and achieved.

Insights include:

• How leading systems define pilot exit criteria, value metrics and scale readiness,
• Strategies for converting workflow wins into measurable labor + cost impact, and
• Lessons from pilots that turned into high-ROI, systemwide programs.

Cost: Free

When: Friday, February 27, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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February 5, 2026

On-Demand Webinar: Better RCM Outcomes, Same System – How Smart Strategy Can Beat Back Rising Denials

Rising denials and long reimbursement cycles are common complaints – even among practices with leading EHR platforms. Technology alone isn’t solving the revenue challenge.

Some practices, however, are seeing a different outcome. By making strategic adjustments to how they manage revenue cycle workflows, they’re achieving up to 98% clean claims, fewer delays and less staff fatigue with the tools they’ve already invested in.

In this on-demand session, hear the practical steps these top-performing groups using athenahealth are taking to unlock better results from the same system.

What you’ll take away:

• Proven tactics to reduce denials and clean up claims faster,
• Steps to accelerate payments and shorten A/R cycles, and
• Lessons in offloading administrative burden without adding headcount.

This webinar is on-demand and can be viewed at your convenience

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February 5, 2026

Webinar: Breaking the 80% Barrier: How Trusted Data Accelerates Enterprise Healthcare AI, February 17

While AI is everywhere in healthcare strategy discussions, most initiatives never make it past pilot. Nearly 80 percent of healthcare AI efforts stall because the underlying data is fragmented, unreliable or difficult to govern at scale.

The discussion focuses on how health systems are supporting use cases like predictive readmissions, operational optimization and precision medicine by strengthening data accuracy, integration, security, explainability and access across the enterprise.

Key takeaways include:

• The five data barriers preventing 80 percent of healthcare AI initiatives from scaling,
• A step-by-step data readiness framework that reduces manual preparation by 60-80 percent, and
• How trusted data foundations drive 3 – 5x faster deployment and 30 – 40 percent accuracy gains.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, February 17, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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