Whitepaper: 20 Criteria Hospital Leaders Should Use to Evaluate Telepsychiatry

April 28, 2026

Whitepaper: 20 Criteria Hospital Leaders Should Use to Evaluate Telepsychiatry

Hospitals are under increasing pressure to expand behavioral health access while managing emergency department congestion, inpatient capacity and limited psychiatric coverage.

Many organizations have adopted telepsychiatry to reduce boarding and improve access, yet leaders often struggle to evaluate which partners can meet hospital-level standards for quality, reliability and integration. Without a clear framework, critical gaps in credentialing, response times or workflows can be missed.

This whitepaper offers a practical checklist outlining 20 criteria to guide telepsychiatry partner evaluations. It helps hospital leaders move beyond surface features to assess long-term clinical, operational and financial fit.

Key takeaways include:

  • How virtual behavioral health services can improve access and reduce ED bottlenecks,
  • Quality, credentialing and governance criteria leaders should assess,
  • Operational and technology requi8rements that support timely consults, and
  • Reporting and financial considerations that impact sustainability.

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Whitepaper: Inside the ‘Smart’ Hospital: Connecting Technology, Workflows and Care

April 28, 2026

Whitepaper: Inside the ‘Smart’ Hospital: Connecting Technology, Workflows and Care

Picture an environment where clinicians are not chasing information, IT teams are not managing endless integrations and leaders have real-time visibility into operations across the enterprise.

The promise of the ‘smart’ hospital is not more tools, but better coordination. It is an approach where systems, devices and workflows are continuously connected allowing hospitals to respond fast, operate more efficiently and help drive safer care across the continuum.

This whitepaper examines the smart hospital concept and explains why unified platforms are emerging as the digital foundation for hospitals looking to reduce fragmentation and imp0rove performance. Rather than layering on additional point solutions, smart hospitals focus on connecting existing investments through enterprise-wide infrastructure.

Download the paper to learn:

  • Six core capabilities that define a smart hospital platform,
  • How enterprise-wide connectivity supports end-to-end workflows,
  • Why open, API-first architectures matter for long-term flexibility, and
  • The operational challenges smart hospitals are designed to address.

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Webinar: Getting Documentation Right the First Time, May 7

April 28, 2026

Webinar: Getting Documentation Right the First Time, May 7

Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) teams play a critical role in ensuring diagnoses are accurate, supported, and reflective of the care delivered. But as charts grow more complex and payer scrutiny of retrospective documentation review increases, changes to documentation that happen after the clinical moment are becoming harder to defend – increasing risk of denials, delaying reimbursement, and driving rework for CDI teams and clinicians. The solution: using technology to get documentation right the first time, to get reimbursed the first time.

Join Regard’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. David Kirk, and CDI leaders as they explore what it takes to get documentation right the first time. This session examines how using technology to recommend diagnoses supported by clinically relevant evidence from the chart, during care delivery – reduces avoidable queries, strengthens defensibility, and lets CDI teams focus their expertise where it matters most: clinical validation, quality alignment, and denial prevention.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, May 7, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

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Webinar: How UC San Diego Health is Making AI a Core Operating Model, May 12

April 28, 2026

Webinar: How UC San Diego Health is Making AI a Core Operating Model, May 12

Many health systems are deploying AI tools, but UC San Diego Health is emerging as a leading example of AI as an operating model, where it has embedded across clinical care, operations, and patient experience rather than deployed as isolated tools.

This session breaks down how UCSD Health structures and governs a growing portfolio of AI initiatives, applying distinct frameworks to predictive AI, generative AI and operational automation.

Learn how the organization used ambient documentation as an entry point to expand AI into adjacent workflows – from patient communication to population-level intelligence and real-time operational decision-making.

The conversation moves from strategy to execution, covering governance models that enable scale and evaluation practices built into every deployment.

Key learnings:

  • Why predictive AI, generative AI and operational automation require different governance and adoption frameworks,
  • How UCSD Health manages a constant influx of AI initiatives through structured intake,
  • How a single high-adoption use case – ambient documentation – can unlock broader workflow transformation, and
  • What it means to treat AI as an ongoing discipline with continuous evaluation.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, May 12, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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Webinar: Reimbursement at Risk: Rethinking Water Safety in the OBBBA Era, May 28

April 28, 2026

Webinar: Reimbursement at Risk: Rethinking Water Safety in the OBBBA Era, May 28

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act has enacted more than $1 trillion in Medicaid reductions over the next decade. As reimbursement tightens and patients arrive later with more advanced conditions, the cost of preventable, non-reimbursable infections is climbing.

Waterborne pathogens – including pseudomonas, legionella and mycobacteria – are a significant and often underestimated driver of hospital-acquired infections. Yet many hospitals are still operating under decades-old water quality standards that experts say may no longer reflect the current evidence, tolerating positivity thresholds that growing research suggests are too permissive.

This session cuts through the complexity. Water safety experts walk through the root causes of poor water quality, the shifting standards landscape and what a prospective approach to waterborne pathogen management looks like in practice.

You will learn:

  • How standards for waterborne pathogens are evolving and what that means for your facility,
  • Root causes of poor water quality and their clinical and financial consequences,
  • Methods hospitals are using to move from reactive to prospective water treatment, and
  • How better water management can lower long-term treatment costs and reduce infection risk.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, May 28, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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Webinar: Pharmacy Procurement at Scale: What’s Breaking and How to Fix It, May 12

April 28, 2026

Webinar: Pharmacy Procurement at Scale: What’s Breaking and How to Fix It, May 12

Pharmacy procurement becomes increasingly difficult to manage as health systems expand.

Many organizations have centralized strategies in place, yet purchasing decisions remain reactive. The result: inconsistency, missed savings and increased compliance risk across the enterprise.

This session explores where traditional procurement models fall short and what leading organizations are doing differently. Learn how real-time data and improved visibility can support more consistent, informed purchasing decisions across the enterprise.

What’s inside:

  • Why reactive purchasing leads to inconsistency, missed savings and compliance risk,
  • How real-time visibility improves purchasing performance and control, and
  • Strategies to standardize procurement while maintaining flexibility.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, May 12, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Webinar: Where AI is Creating Real Value in Revenue Cycle Operations, May 6

April 28, 2026

Webinar: Where AI is Creating Real Value in Revenue Cycle Operations, May 6

Revenue cycle teams are under pressure – and adding more labor isn’t the answer.

Healthcare organizations are being asked to reduce administrative burden, improve financial performance and modernize operations all at once. But for many leaders, separating meaningful AI innovation from hype remains a challenge.

This session takes a ground-level look at AI in revenue cycle operations – where it touches documentation, prioritization, payer response interpretation, exception resolution and revenue recovery.

You’ll leave with a clearer picture of:

  • The difference between basic automation and generative, agentic and applied AI in revenue cycle operations,
  • Which RCM pain points are most likely to benefit from AI today,
  • Why trusted data, governance and human oversight are essential to practical AI adoption, and
  • How to identify the right starting points for modernization based on workflow readiness and measurable impact.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, May 6, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Webinar: From Disconnected to Decisive: Modernizing Healthcare Finance, May 12

April 28, 2026

Webinar: From Disconnected to Decisive: Modernizing Healthcare Finance, May 12

Healthcare finance teams are navigating volatile reimbursement models, fluctuating census levels and persistent capital constraints.

But many finance teams are still working across disconnected systems – where all of it rarely aligns. When workforce forecasts, patient demand and financial planning live in separate environments, finance leaders lose the clarity needed to respond quickly.

In this session, healthcare finance leaders and implementation experts share a real world modernization story, what worked, what didn’t and how teams accelerate time to value.

Key takeaways include:

  • How finance teams automatically connect census projections, staffing needs and financial forecasts,
  • Strategies to quickly adjust models as reimbursement and payer mix change,
  • How AI-powered insights explain variances, surface trends and accelerate executive and board reporting, and
  • How to align operational, workforce and financial planning to create a continuous view of performance.

Target Audience:

This webinar is designed for senior finance decision-makers, such as:

  • CFOs,
  • Heads of Finance, and
  • VPs Finance

Cost: Free

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

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Rural Health Research: Overcoming Challenges with Rural-Related Health Data: Lessons Learned From Published Studies

April 28, 2026

Rural Health Research: Overcoming Challenges with Rural-Related Health Data: Lessons Learned From Published Studies

Research is essential for understanding rural communities’ health needs and identifying effective programs and policies; however, data quality issues and other limitations can weaken the evidence. A systematic review of rural-related studies using secondary, quantitative data was conducted to identify strategies that could help overcome challenges related to rural data, with a focus on limitations section of included studies.

Key Takeaways:

  • Over half of included rural-related studies identified at least one potential strategy for overcoming study-related limitations or challenges, including those concerning data, within the limitations section.
  • Data source strategies included using large, representative data sources and using established definitions of rurality.
  • Data analysis strategies included using specific techniques like sensitivity analysis and testing multiple measures of rurality.
  • Given the importance of rural data for understanding and improving the health of rural communities, researchers, data owners, and others should explore and use methods to facilitate robust and timely rural analyses.

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CDC Webinar: NHSN AU Option 2023 SAAR Rebaseline: Information for Critical Access Hospitals, May 13

April 28, 2026

CDC Webinar: NHSN AU Option 2023 SAAR Rebaseline: Information for Critical Access Hospitals, May 13

The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Antimicrobial Use (AU) Option has released updates to its risk-adjustment methodology with the 2023 SAAR (Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratio) rebaseline.

A major development is the introduction of mixed acuity unit with SAAR values which will enable more critical access hospitals (CAHs) to receive SAAR calculations. This represents a substantial change from previous reporting periods when many CAHs were unable to generate SAARs due to not having SAAR-eligible units within NHSN.

The speakers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have specifically designed this webinar for CAHs and will provide a comprehensive overview of these important updates.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, May 13, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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