October 29, 2025
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Article: The Quality Department Alone Can’t Drive Safety or Strategic Improvement: The Critical Role of Operations, Informatics & Analytics in Continual System Re-Design
October 29, 2025
Article: The Quality Department Alone Can’t Drive Safety or Strategic Improvement: The Critical Role of Operations, Informatics & Analytics in Continual System Re-Design
We all know clinicians see safety and quality as part of their professional duty. They carry the responsibility to deliver the best care possible, to avoid harm, and to give their patients the best possible experience. Yet in practice, clinicians wrestle daily with systems not optimized for safe, efficient work.
Between clunky interfaces, misaligned incentives, workflow bottlenecks, and communication gaps, suboptimized systems are a major contribution to both clinician emotional fatigue, poor organizational performance and increasing risks to quality and safety. So, the real question becomes: who helps ensure the system is designed so that clinicians can do their best work, and patients can have the best results?
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Whitepaper: Redesigning RCM Support: A Step-by-Step Framework for Relieving Burnout and Boosting Yield
October 29, 2025
Whitepaper: Redesigning RCM Support: A Step-by-Step Framework for Relieving Burnout and Boosting Yield
Hospitals aren’t just healthcare providers – they’re among the largest employers in their communities. But as workforce demands grow and burnout intensifies, health systems must rethink how to support finance and RCM teams while staying financially agile.
This whitepaper outlines how end-to-end RCM partnerships can strengthen internal teams, not replace them. By consolidating workflows, filling resource gaps and reducing tech overload, health systems can drive both financial performance and workforce satisfaction.
You’ll get step-by-step guidance to vet, implement and evaluate an RCM partner, as well as strategies to include your staff’s valuable input throughout the process.
Insights include:
- Consolidating workflows under one accountable partner,
- Filling resource and skill gaps without increasing burnout,
- Turning tech overload into streamlined support,
- Refocusing internal teams on high-impact work, and
- Onboarding external support with transparency and staff input
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DHSS Webinar: Tobacco Prevention to Promote Health Equity, November 4
October 29, 2025
DHSS Webinar: Tobacco Prevention to Promote Health Equity, November 4
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Minority Health and Health Equity, is partnering with the Bureau of Community Health and Wellness/Tobacco Prevention and Control Program and the American Lung Association to offer this free webinar.
You are invited to join this webinar to learn more about tobacco and lung cancer disparities and resources to promote prevention efforts to improve health equity.
Cost: Free
When: Tuesday, November 4, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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Whitepaper: Still Solving Clinical Gaps One Tool at a Time? There’s a Better Approach
October 29, 2025
Whitepaper: Still Solving Clinical Gaps One Tool at a Time? There’s a Better Approach
Digital fragmentation is stalling care coordination. Clinicians toggle between systems. Pharmacists use different drug references than physicians. Patients receive inconsistent information. And IT leaders are left stitching solutions together with limited success.
A systemic approach to integrating clinical information across teams can help improve care delivery, team collaboration, and patient outcomes. This whitepaper introduces a systems-thinking framework to unify care delivery around trusted, evidence-based information. Backed by examples from Allina Health, St. Luke’s University Health Network, and more, it shows how integrated guidance at the point of care can reduce errors, align teams, and support patients throughout their health journeys.
For CIOs, CMIOs, and digital transformation leaders, this is more than a fix – it’s a blueprint for sustainable, team-based care.
You’ll Learn:
- 5 strategies to build out evidence-based, interconnected teams,
- How health systems are scaling digital tools without overloading staff, and
- Measurable results – including fewer errors, improved clinician engagement, and increased patient trust.
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Webinar: Fix the Data, Then Deploy the Models: A Practical Guide to AI-driven Network Design, October 30
October 29, 2025
Webinar: Fix the Data, Then Deploy the Models: A Practical Guide to AI-driven Network Design, October 30
Provider network performance is now a competitive differentiator for health plans. Members expect choice and access, regulators expect adequacy and parity, and executives expect measurable ROI. The catch: artificial intelligence and machine learning only create value when the underlying network data is accurate, governed and aligned to real decisions.
Join this webinar for a straightforward, technical-to-operational playbook. The discussion will cover how to identify and remediate data quality issues (duplicates, stale affiliations, taxonomy and NPI mismatches), how to engineer features that reflect actual cost, quality and utilization.
Key Takeaways:
- How to profile and fix the data issues that break network analytics and ML,
- How to use competitor composition and leakage analyses to inform design and contracting, and
- How CIOs and CTOs evaluate AI proposals, and the artifacts that accelerate approval.
Cost: Free
When: Thursday, October 30, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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Webinar: Rethinking Locum Tenens: How Smarter Coverage Planning Protects Revenue and Access, November 19
October 29, 2025
Webinar: Rethinking Locum Tenens: How Smarter Coverage Planning Protects Revenue and Access, November 19
In healthcare, unfilled provider roles aren’t just operational gaps – they’re revenue leaks.
Join this executive-level session to explore how health systems are shifting physician staffing from a reactive cost to a proactive growth lever. Leaders will share how aligning locum tenens coverage with payer strategy, early credentialing and enterprise workforce planning can safeguard margins and unlock untapped revenue.
Attendees will leave with a strategic framework for turning coverage decisions into drivers of financial performance, care access and organizational resilience.
Learnings Include:
- Why coverage aligned with billing and payer strategy can yield 4x – 8x returns,
- How early payer enrollment can prevent $122K+ in forfeited revenue per provider, and
- How cross=functional alignment boosts billing readiness and reduces coverage risk.
Cost: Free
When: Wednesday, November 19, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
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Webinar: From Data to Decisions: How AI Command Centers Enable Safer Smarter Health Systems, November 12
October 29, 2025
Webinar: From Data to Decisions: How AI Command Centers Enable Safer Smarter Health Systems, November 12
Health system leaders face a familiar bind: patient acuity risk is rising, CMS penalties are looming and budgets are tight – but the data to manage it all lives in silos.
This webinar explores a practical answer: AI-powered command centers that unify real-time data into a single source of truth. Leaders get an executive-ready view of clinical risk, performance and ROI, enabling faster decisions, targeted resource deployment and measurable improvement across facilities and service lines.
Key learnings include:
- How to optimize an executive-ready command center to monitor risk and performance across units in real time,
- How to direct resources to the highest-impact areas to reduce adverse events and protect CMS scores, and
- How to sustain improvement with clear governance, front-line workflows and systemwide accountability.
Cost: Free
When: Wednesday, November 12, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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Webinar: How One Critical Access Hospital is redefining Nursing Professional Development, October 30
October 29, 2025
Webinar: How One Critical Access Hospital is redefining Nursing Professional Development, October 30
Hospitals are under pressure to lift nurse competence, reduce burnout and improve retention without expanding budgets of facilities. Rural teams often feel these constraints most.
Grand Ronde Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in La Grande, Ore., is showing what’s possible. It’s nurse residency earned the 2023 Performance Leadership Award for Excellence in Outcomes from the Chartis Center for Rural Health. In this session, UbiSim’s nurse educator Christine Heid, PhD, MSN/Ed, will present eye-opening research findings on practice readiness gaps and evolving competency expectations, setting the stage for leaders from Grand Ronde to share how they built a right-sized, outcomes-focused professional development model that’s adaptable for both small and large organizations.
Author and educator Dan Weberg, PhD, RN, will moderate a candid discussion with Grande Ronde’s nursing leaders on how they designed experiential learning, leveraged technology to accelerate practice readiness and tracked the signals that matter to executives – job satisfaction, clinical competence, burnout and retention.
Learnings include:
- How to design a right-sized residency for small teams,
- How to deliver high-impact experiential learning without new infrastructure, and
- How to integrate technology to bridge education and practice
Cost: Free
When: Thursday, October 30, 1:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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Webinar: Reimagining Primary Care with AI: A New Model for Access and Outcomes, October 29
October 24, 2026
Webinar: Reimagining Primary Care with AI: A New Model for Access and Outcomes, October 29
Primary care is under immense strain from rising patient demand, workforce shortages, and administrative complexity. Primary Care as a Service transforms this challenge into an opportunity by serving as a scalable extension of the care team.
By orchestrating best next actions, automating routine task, and supporting proactive patient engagement, agentic AI enables providers to focus on delivering higher-quality, patient-centered care.
This webinar explores how Primary Care as a service enhances outcomes, drives financial sustainability, and empowers both patients and physicians.
Key Takeaways:
- Discover how Primary Care as a Service leverages agentic AI to streamline workflows, reduce administrative burden, and keep clinicians operating at the top of their license.
- Learn how AI-driven prevention, chronic condition management, and care coordination expand access while improving patient outcomes.
- Understand the financial and operational benefits of Primary Care as a Service, including optimized capacity, referral management, and value-based performance.
- See how Primary Care as a Service integrates seamlessly into clinical workflows, surfacing insights and automating best next actions to support care teams in real time.
Cost: Free
When: Wednesday, October 29, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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