Author: dianawinder

Whitepaper: 180 Healthcare Breaches Reveal: Your Email System May be Your Biggest Risk

July 24, 2025

Whitepaper: 180 Healthcare Breaches Reveal: Your Email System May be Your Biggest Risk

Despite a 70% surge in cybersecurity spending, email remains healthcare’s most compromised asset. In 2024 alone, 180 healthcare organizations – including users of Microsoft 365, Proofpoint and Google Workspace – reported email-related breaches to the HHS Office for Civil Rights. Many of these incidents were preventable, tied to misconfigured settings and unchecked vulnerabilities, not a lack of investment.

This exclusive report unpacks how even leading health systems fall short on HIPAA email compliance – and what leaders must do now to avoid financial, legal and reputational damage.

Download to learn:

  • Why 43% of email breaches happened on Microsoft 365, despite security add-ons,
  • How AI-driven phishing and poor email security protocols expose even trained employees, and
  • What the average $9.8 million breach cost means for your 2025 risk strategy.

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2025 340B Program Hospital Recertification Announcement

July 24, 2025

2025 340B Program Hospital Recertification Announcement

The 2025 340B Program Recertification period for hospitals will be August 1 – September 8, 2025.

Prior to being able to recertify, Authorizing Officials (AOs) and Primary Contacts (PCs) must set up a user account in the 340B office of Pharmacy Affairs Information System (340B OPAIS). Failure to set up user accounts will result in not being able to view accounts or conduct recertification, thus termination from the 340B Program.

AOs and PCs must create individual user accounts; they will not be able to share access.

All active 340B ID’s associated with an AOs user account must be updated for recertification to be completed by the established deadline. Failure to recertify by the established deadline will result in termination from the 340B Program.

For assistance with the 340B OPAIS, it is strongly encouraged to utilize the online help that is available for your convenience. In addition, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has information and tutorials available on their website at https://www.hrsa.gov/opa/340b-opais/index.html.

For further assistance please contact the 340B call center operated by the 340B Prime Vendor Program at apexusanswers@340bpvp.com or call 1-888-340-2787 (Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.)

There will be a recertification webinar on August 6, 2025, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST.

Webinar Details

When: Wednesday, August 6, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST

Webinar: Who’s Cleaning Medical Equipment? The Answer Affects Patient Flow, August 13

July 24, 2025

Webinar: Who’s Cleaning Medical Equipment? The Answer Affects Patient Flow, August 13

Ambiguous responsibilities for cleaning and equipment handling are costing hospitals more than time. They’re risking compliance, delaying care and compromising safety.

In this session, infection prevention and operations experts break down how instructions for use (IFU) misalignment across healthcare teams drives infection risk and patient delays – and what leading systems are doing instead.

You’ll hear real-world insights on how centralized service models can reduce confusion, drive throughput and keep hospitals survey ready.

Key Takeaways

  • How IFU uncertainty leads to delayed care and equipment downtime,
  • Why shared responsibility models fail – and how centralizing can improve throughput, and
  • How to protect uptime, safety and staff satisfaction with clear ownership of disinfection and storage.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, August 13, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Webinar: The Capacity Challenge: How Inspira Health Improved Efficiency and Patient Safety in the Emergency Department, August 7

July 24, 2025

Webinar: The Capacity Challenge: How Inspira Health Improved Efficiency and Patient Safety in the Emergency Department, August 7

Hospital capacity has remained above 70% since 2023, and overcrowding in the emergency department remains a persistent and urgent challenge for many health systems.

At Inspira Health, rising volumes and limited physical space forced a new approach. Instead of adding staff or beds, the New Jersey-based system restructured ED operations to reduce wait times, improve safety and boost clinician capacity through strategic planning, staff engagement, and technology integration.

In this session, clinical and operational leaders from Inspira will share what worked – and what didn’t – in their push to turn operational strain into systemwide improvement.

What You’ll Learn

  • How Inspira improved ED efficiency and safety without adding staff or beds,
  • Tactics that drove front-line engagement and executive alignment,
  • Practical lessons for navigating ED capacity challenges, and
  • How nursing leaders evaluate and use innovative technology to drive system outcomes.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, August 7, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Webinar: What Your EHR Isn’t Capturing: The Data Gap Costing Health Systems, August 1

July 24, 2025

Webinar: What Your EHR Isn’t Capturing: The Data Gap Costing Health Systems, August 1

Clinically relevant information – including referral letters, faxes and discharge notes – often exist in unstructured formats. The result: care delays, manual review overload and untapped reimbursement.

However, some health systems are now using tech to unlock structured insights from unstructured sources to streamline workflows and improve throughput.

Join industry experts for a virtual learning session that will examine how health systems, specialty groups and more use AI infrastructure to automate insight extraction and drive scalable care coordination.

Learning points include:

  • What unstructured data is costing provider and payer-aligned orgs in real dollars and staff hours,
  • How to extract intelligence from PDFs, notes and faxes using scalable, AI-powered tools, and
  • Real examples from referral management, ACO documentation and hybrid payment models

Cost: Free

When: Friday, August 1, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Whitepaper: Better Risk Capture, Better Margins: An Exec Playbook for Improving Risk Adjustment

July 24, 2025

Whitepaper: Better Risk Capture, Better Margins: An Exec Playbook for Improving Risk Adjustment

Incomplete risk capture undermines revenue and care quality, especially as value-based models accelerate. Industry averages fall short: 80% recapture rates, 70% annual wellness visit coverage. That leaves dollars – and patient outcomes – at risk.

This toolkit shows how leading organizations are raising performance with best-in-class targets, technology-enabled processes and a focus on clinician engagement.

See how you can reach 95% recapture, minimize audit exposure and fund care improvements without adding administrative burden.

Download this whitepaper for actionable insights, including:

  • The 7 metrics that determine risk adjustment performance,
  • Strategies to improve coding accuracy and protect revenue, and
  • Steps to operationalize better risk capture across teams.

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Upcoming Webinar: Reducing ED Boarding & Boosting Surgical Growth: Inside Jackson Health’s AI Strategy, August 28

July 24, 2025

Upcoming Webinar: Reducing ED Boarding & Boosting Surgical Growth: Inside Jackson Health’s AI Strategy, August 28

For many health systems, operational complexity holds back growth and erodes margins. Jackson Health System faced the same obstacles – until leaders built a strategic AI framework that goes beyond the EHR.

In this webinar, Jackson Health’s president and COO will share how the team unlocked a 0.42-day reduction in excess days, a 4.5% increase in primetime OR utilization, and an 18% drop in ED boarding times and $6.7 million in annualized savings.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Develop an AI strategy to address inpatient capacity and surgical growth,
  • Build alignment for enterprise AI investments that deliver ROI, and
  • Drive adoption of AI assistants across clinical and operational teams.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, August 28, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Upcoming Webinar: Meeting Patients Where They Are: How Tech-driven Clinical Workflows Support Population Health, August 26

July 24, 2025

Upcoming Webinar: Meeting Patients Where They Are: How Tech-driven Clinical Workflows Support Population Health, August 26

Health systems’ patient populations are shifting, driven by aging demographics, expanding service footprints, and rising expectations for transparency and access.

Adaptation is paramount but meeting patients’ needs has never been more complex. Leaders must engage communities with varying levels of digital literacy while supporting clinicians facing mounting workloads and staffing challenges.

It’s time to move from ambitious plans to proven, sustainable solutions. This webinar will bring together health system leaders to explore how technology delivers measurable ROI, strengthens patient education, and builds more inclusive, streamlined care workflows that evolve as needs change.

Join this conversation to learn how your peers are:

  • Using digital tools to engage diverse communities and advance patient education,
  • Evaluating the ROI of technology-enabled workflows – and the metrics that matter most, and
  • Designing adaptable methods that sustain performance across markets and populations.

Cost:  Free

When: Tuesday, August 26, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Upcoming Webinar: Designing Safer Workplaces for Nurses: A New Era of Accountability, Empathy, and Real-Time Awareness, August 7

July 24, 2025

Upcoming Webinar: Designing Safer Workplaces for Nurses: A New Era of Accountability, Empathy, and Real-Time Awareness, August 7

This webinar explores how hospitals are rethinking workplace safety to better support and retain their nursing staff. We’ll dive into the role of real-time technology in preventing incidents, reducing burnout, and creating a culture of trust.

Learn how health systems are balancing the need for accountability with empathy to build safer more sustainable clinical environments.

Insights include:

  • How real-time tech can help prevent workplace violence and reduce clinician burnout,
  • Strategies to build a culture of trust and safety that supports nurse retention, and
  • Approaches to balancing accountability with empathy in workplace safety programs

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, August 7, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Upcoming Webinar: How Health Systems are Shaping Executive Leadership Teams to Drive Future Success, July 30

July 24, 2025

Upcoming Webinar: How Health Systems are Shaping Executive Leadership Teams to Drive Future Success, July 30

As margins tighten and transformation accelerates, organizations must strategically identify and develop leaders who will shape the future.

This discussion breaks down how forward-looking health systems are reassessing leadership gaps, strengthening succession pipelines and determining when to promote from within versus hire outside innovators.

You’ll gain timely insights into the frameworks, mindsets and warning signs senior teams are using to future-proof leadership.

Key Takeaways Include:

  • Signs it’s time to restructure or realign the C-suite,
  • How to evaluate leadership gaps and succession plans, and
  • Strategies for building a resilient, future -focused executive team

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, July 30, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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