Rural Spotlight

Webinar: AI Literacy & Clinical Expertise: Keeping Human Judgment Sharp as AI Scales, August 12

July 15, 2026

Webinar: AI Literacy & Clinical Expertise: Keeping Human Judgment Sharp as AI Scales, August 12

AI is becoming embedded in healthcare, helping clinicians retrieve information faster and ease administrative burden. Recent Wolters Kluwer research found 74% of physicians and 70% of nurses now use generative AI weekly, yet 92% say human expert validation remains essential.

That gap – between confident adoption and demand for human judgment – is where leadership’s work sits

;: keeping clinical expertise sharp rather than letting it recede as AI scales.

The shift reaches beyond the clinician’s workflow. Patients increasingly arrive informed by their own AI tools, so both sides of the exam room engage with AI, rarely with the same content.

But done well, AI doesn’t dilute clinical expertise; it deepens it.

Join a candid discussion among healthcare executives on building AI-ready organizations that support clinicians, strengthen patient care and sharpen everyday decisions.

Insights include:

  • How AI is reshaping clinical reasoning and patient expectations – and the skills clinicians need next,
  • Why AI literacy matters for clinicians and patients alike,
  • Strategies to strengthen, not just preserve, clinical expertise as AI scales, and
  • Practical ways to connect evidence, workflows and patient-facing information.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, August 12, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Webinar: How Allina Health is Building the Operating System for AI Transformation – and Driving $7.3M in Added Surgical Contribution Margin, July 29

July 15, 2026

Webinar: How Allina Health is Building the Operating System for AI Transformation – and Driving $7.3M in Added Surgical Contribution Margin, July 29

Most health systems are still deciding where to start with AI. Allina Health already knows where it leads – a systemwide transformation strategy that is already driving $7.3 million in added annual surgical contribution margin.

What started in 2022 as an effort to grow surgical volume produced fast, measurable results: 3.5 added cases per OR per month and 36% robotic volume growth in the first four months. That proof point became the foundation for a broader strategy spanning perioperative care, inpatient capacity and a first-of-its-king co-development model.

In this live webinar, leaders from Allina Health will share how the organization moved from one use case to an enterprise AI transformation model – and the operational and cultural conditions that made it possible.

Learnings include:

  • How AI and automation boost robotic volume and drive millions in revenue,
  • What enterprise AI transformation looks like beyond pilots and point solutions, and
  • How to make the case for enterprisewide AI – from getting started to proving ROI to scaling.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, July 29, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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Praxis Center Rural Healthcare Providers Survey

July 15, 2026

Praxis Center Rural Healthcare Providers Survey

The Praxis Center, a new healthcare simulation training center currently under development in Butte, Montana, is being developed in collaboration with rural healthcare leaders, hospitals, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Indian Health organizations, EMS agencies and other partners committed to strengthening healthcare in rural communities.

The Praxis Center will be the first independent simulation training center in the United States dedicated exclusively to the education and training needs of rural healthcare providers. Their mission is to improve workforce development, patient safety, clinical competency, and healthcare outcomes for rural communities across the United States and Canada.

To ensure the Center addresses the real-world needs of rural healthcare organizations, they are conducting a national assessment of current training priorities, challenges, and workforce needs and your input is requested to ensure your training priorities and workforce needs are included.

Two survey respondents will be randomly selected for $500 gift cards.

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Whitepaper: The Supply Chain Reckoning Facing Every Health System in 2026

July 14, 2026

Whitepaper: The Supply Chain Reckoning Facing Every Health System in 2026

The healthcare supply chain has long been treated as a cost center. That framing is breaking down. Labor pressure, reimbursement cuts, supply disruption and margin volatility have made it clear that another round of contract renegotiation will not be enough.

This whitepaper examines what comes next: a shift from episodic savings to intelligence-driven decision-making that connects supply chain, finance and clinical performance in real time. It introduces the concept of “decision debt” – the hidden liability that builds when sourcing, utilization and forecasting decisions are made with incomplete or lagging data – and shows what it looks like to resolve it.

Health systems profiled inside include Crouse Health, which delivered more than $6 million in first-year improvements by aligning supply chain, clinical and finance strategy, and Montefiore Health System, which translated supply chain strategy into $53 million in measurable annual impact.

Inside the whitepaper:

  • How leading health systems are reducing decision debt and ending the annual cycle of relief followed by regression,
  • How AI and predictive analytics are being embedded into procurement, sourcing and forecasting workflows,
  • What a governance-first approach to AI looks like in supply chain operations, and
  • How Crouse Health, Montefiore and others have rebuilt the function as a strategic lever.

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Webinar: Is Ambulatory Care Healthcare’s Big Margin Engine: 4 Leaders Weigh In, July 29

July 14, 2026

Webinar: Is Ambulatory Care Healthcare’s Big Margin Engine: 4 Leaders Weigh In, July 29

Healthcare is in the midst of a site-of-care pivot. With shrinking reimbursement, rising capital constraints and structural changes in how CMS pays for inpatient services, health system and group practice leaders are rethinking strategy and betting on ambulatory care.

As they shift capital toward outpatient settings, site neutrality and new prior authorization rules are rewriting care delivery and revenue cycle. But will ambulatory pay off as a durable growth engine, and what separates the organizations unlocking growth from those that aren’t?

Join Becker’s and leaders from Loma Linda University Health, CommonSpirit Health, Gramercy Surgery Center and Boston Out-Patient Surgical Suites for a candid conversation on where future margin is coming from, how leaders are investing across settings and whether returns are meeting expectations.

Insights include:

  • How site neutrality and prior authorization are reshaping site-of-care strategy,
  • Where leaders see future margin and how they’re weighing investment across settings,
  • The role technology and AI can play in adapting to policy and site-of-care levers, and
  • The trade-offs and pitfalls of a more distributed care model, including for value-based care.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, July 29, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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Whitepaper: How Health Systems are Rethinking Patient Flow Across the Hospital

July 14, 2026

Whitepaper: How Health Systems are Rethinking Patient Flow Across the Hospital

Across hospitals, patient flow challenges are playing out daily – delayed discharges, constrained capacity and growing pressure on emergency departments.

These issues rarely start in one department. They reflect how effectively patients move across the entire system, from admission through discharge. When coordination breaks down, delays compound and access suffers. This whitepaper presents a structured, end-to-end approach to managing patient flow, supported by examples from health systems already putting that model into practice with predictive intelligence and generative AI.

Featured case studies from Baptist Health Arkansas, Springhill Medical Center and University Health (San Antonio) show how organizations are improving discharge processes, reducing boarding time and increasing admissions through better systemwide coordination.

Learnings include:

  • How leading systems coordinate decisions across the full patient journey,
  • What proactive capacity and admission planning looks like in practice,
  • How the featured organizations improved flow and throughput,
  • Why aligning staffing, discharge and care progression is critical, and
  • What it takes to see measurable impact like a 5% increase in daily discharge and 12-hour reduction in LOS.

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Webinar: Inside How Advocate Health and Wellstar are Rethinking Staff Safety with Axon, July 23

July 14, 2026

Webinar: Inside How Advocate Health and Wellstar are Rethinking Staff Safety with Axon, July 23

Workplace violence against healthcare workers is impossible to ignore, with more than 80% of nurses reporting at least one incident in a single year, according to a 2024 National Nurses United report.

The fallout reaches well beyond the bedside. Six in 10 nurses have left or considered leaving the profession because of workplace violence, a loss strained health systems cannot absorb. The financial toll compounds it: workplace and community violence cost U.S. hospitals an estimated $18.27 billion in 2023, according to the American Hospital Association.

In this Becker’s Healthcare panel, security and safety leaders from Advocate Health and Wellstar Health System discuss what it takes to protect the people who care for patients.

They will discuss:

  • The legislative shifts raising the urgency around caregiver safety,
  • How leading health systems build a culture of safety beyond compliance,
  • The role of technology in protecting front-line staff, and
  • Practical ways to reduce the human and financial cost of violence.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, July 23, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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Webinar: New Language Access Rules are Reshaping Patient Experience: Lessons from Denver Health and UnityPoint Health, August 10

July 14, 2026

Webinar: New Language Access Rules are Reshaping Patient Experience: Lessons from Denver Health and UnityPoint Health, August 10

The Joint Commission’s standards on effective communication and language access, HHS’s CLAS Standards, CMS Conditions of Participation, and new state interpreter mandates are pushing health systems to rethink how they serve LEP patients. For patient experience leaders, the pressure is real: meet the requirements, improve communication and do it without adding clinician burden.

In this August 10 discussion, patient experience leaders from Denver Health and UnityPoint Health will detail how they embedded interpreter services into HER workflows, telehealth, discharge and contact cneters, and how that work connects to HCAHPS and health equity star ratings. The Joint Commission’s standards on effective communication and language access, HHS’s CLAS Standards, CMS Conditions of Participation, and new state interpreter mandates are pushing health systems to rethink how they serve LEP patients.

For patient experience leaders, the pressure is real: meet the requirements, improve communication and do it without adding clinician burden.

Learnings include:

  • How to map a single regulatory driver, such as the CLAS update or CMS requirements, to the policies, staffing and documentation your organization needs now,
  • How Denver Health and UnityPoint Health integrated interpreter services across digital front doors, virtual care and inpatient rounds,
  • How to connect language access to HCAHPS communication domains and equity related star measures, and
  • Where AI-assisted quality monitoring with human oversight supports continuous QA.

Cost: Free

When: Monday, August 10, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Recover Lost Revenue from Documentation Gaps – At No Cost to Your Hospital

July 14, 2026

Recover Lost Revenue from Documentation Gaps – At No Cost to Your Hospital

ClariDI, LLC, a health IT company based in New Jersey, has developed a patent-pending automated Clinical Documentation Improvement engine built specifically for Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). ClariDI is looking for one CAH partner to participate in a research pilot program, supported by an NIH SBIR grant application.

The Problem:

  • Rural hospitals lose hundreds of thousands annually from under-documented diagnoses that lower DRG reimbursement.
  • Enterprise CDI tools cost $100K-$300K/year – out of reach for most CAHs.
  • Without CDI, clinical severity isn’t captured, leading to underpayment from Medicare and commercial payers.
  • Manual CDI review requires specialists most rural hospitals can’t recruit or afford.

The Solution

  • Automated CDI: ClariDI reads physician notes in real time, identifies missed diagnoses, specificity gaps, and under-coded conditions.
  • Deterministic AI: Every finding is traceable, reproducible, and CMS audit-ready – not a black-box LLM.
  • EMR-integrated: Works with eClinicalWorks, Epic, Cerner, and any FHIR-enabled system.
  • Built for rural: Designed specifically for CAHs and community hospitals that lack dedicated CDI staff.

NIH-Funded Pilot Program – What’s in it for Your Hospital?

What you get:

  • Free access to ClariDI during the pilot period,
  • Detailed documentation gap analysis for your facility,
  • Revenue impact report showing recovered reimbursement,
  • Priority pricing if you continue after the pilot, and
  • Co-authorship credit on published research.

What They ask:

  • 500 de-identified discharge summaries for validation,
  • A letter of support for the NIH SBIR application,
  • Participation in feedback sessions during the pilot, and
  • Willingness to share anonymized outcome metrics.

Hospitals interested in participating in this program should contact:

Muhammad Ali, Muhammad.ali@claridi.health, 347 277-5488

Website: https://claridi.health/

This opportunity is being shared by the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) Office of Rural Health and Primary Care (ORHPC) for informational purposes. The contents do not necessarily reflect the view of DHSS ORHPC.

On-Demand Webinar: From Silos to Situational Awareness: Advancing Perinatal Care with Cloud and AI

July 14, 2026

On-Demand Webinar: From Silos to Situational Awareness: Advancing Perinatal Care with Cloud and AI

Labor and delivery units demand more from clinicians than almost any other care setting. Data is constant, decisions are immediate, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Yet documentation burden, workflow gaps, and variability in care continue to challenge teams already operating at their limits.

This on-demand webinar brings together panelists from GE HealthCare, HCA Healthcare, and AWS to spotlight their combined efforts to reimagine perinatal digital support. Discussion explores how cross-industry collaboration enables digital innovation designed to fit clinical workflows – not complicate them. Through real-world experience, panelists share how cloud-based platforms, interoperable data, and clinician-led design can help reduce cognitive burden, improve consistency in fetal monitoring, and support scalable, future-ready care delivery.

Expect practical perspectives from how advanced analytics support more consistent, evidence-based fetal heart rate interpretation to how cloud-first architecture enables real-time insight, scalability, and reliability across diverse care settings.

Key learnings:

  • How real-time data and unified views improve situational awareness in labor and delivery,
  • Strategies to reduce documentation burden and cognitive overload for clinical teams,
  • The role of clinician co-design in driving adoption and long-term success, and
  • Best practices for implementing digital and AI tools while minimizing IT friction.

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