April 20, 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 requirements that support timely consults, and
• Reporting and financial considerations that impact sustainability.

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April 20, 2026

Whitepaper: Cyber Resilience is Now a Patient Safety Imperative

Cyberattacks and system outages are no longer rare events. For healthcare organizations, they are recurring threats that interrupt care, strain staff and ultimately undermine patient safety.

This report draws on the perspectives of clinical informatics and technology leaders to explore why prevention alone is no longer enough. It examines the growing gap between cybersecurity defenses and true operational readiness, and why many organizations remain vulnerable even after investing heavily in security tools.

Key takeaways include:

• Strengthening resilience, as the need to connect systems brings new operational risk,
• How health systems like M Health Fairview prepare for extended downtime scenarios, and
• Why leadership alignment across clinical, IT and operational teams is critical.

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April 20, 2026

eBook: How Health Systems Can Evaluate AI Solutions to Transform Primary Care Delivery

As AI becomes more ingrained in healthcare operations, health system leaders must evaluate solutions with the same rigor applied to clinical and financial decisions.

A Health System’s Guide to Evaluating AI Solutions provides a primary care-first framework for assessing AI based on clinical relevance, workflow integration, scalability, and governance.

Developed by Lumeris clinical and strategy leaders, the guide helps executives make confident, defensible AI decisions that support long-term care transformation. It offers practical guidance for moving from experimentation to enterprise impact.

Key Learning Points:

• How to evaluate AI solutions using a structured framework aligned to primary care delivery and health system strategy,
• The core criteria leaders should apply when assessing AI vendors, including clinical impact, operational fit, scalability, and governance,
• What separates scalable, enterprise-ready AI from point solutions that fail to deliver sustained value,
• How thoughtfully deployed AI can help strengthen primary care capacity and help improve outcomes, and
• How to evaluate AI vendors with a useful takeaway checklist that has been thoughtfully curated with experts in the space.

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April 20, 2026

Whitepaper: From Denials to Disruption: What 2026 Will Demand of Health Systems in a Payer-Driven Market

2025 exposed hard truths: Denials surged. Trust collapsed. And affordability became the dominant barrier to care, not just on the Exchange and among the uninsured, but across Medicare Advantage and commercial plans alike.

This 2026 outlook unpacks the forces reshaping healthcare, from ambient AI and vertical integration to the Medicare Advantage credibility crisis. It’s a tactical guide for health system leaders who don’t want to be caught off guard by another year of payer-driven disruption.

Takeaways include:

• A breakdown of the top 5 threats to access and affordability in 2026,
• The shift from payer collaboration to confrontation and what systems are doing about it, and
• Strategic levers to protect financial sustainability, operational control, and consumer trust.

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April 16, 2026

Whitepaper: Strategic Workforce Modernization at Bon Secours Mercy Health

Imagine a staffing environment where open-shift incentives are no longer managed through spreadsheets, schedules are better aligned to patient demand and leaders have clearer visibility into workforce needs across the enterprise.

This whitepaper shows how Bon Secours Mercy Health is working toward that model with its workforce management system. Rather than making incremental changes to legacy scheduling practices, the organization modernized its approach with automated incentive pricing, structured PRN participation and forecasting tools designed to support more evidence-based staffing decisions.

The result is a workforce strategy built to improve transparency, strengthen schedule stability and help leaders use internal staff more effectively before turning to higher-cost labor options.

Learnings include:

• How dynamic incentive pricing helped target the shifts with the greatest need,
• How the PRN Tiers program increased pre-scheduled hours by 25% during a holiday period,
• How forecasting tools supported more precise staffing baselines, and
• How workforce modernization can support employee experience and financial stewardship.

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April 16, 2026

Whitepaper: The Future of Payer-Provider Collaboration: Balancing Reimbursement Pressures & Value-Based Progress

Health system technology leaders are being pulled into the center of payer-provider conflict. Rising denials, growing administrative workloads and tighter reimbursement timelines are forcing organizations to rethink how data, infrastructure and platforms support collaboration.

This report promises a clearer view of what is actually driving friction between payers and providers today and what leaders believe could ease it. Rather than positioning collaboration as a catch-all solution, it examines where alignment breaks down and what realistic improvements look like from the provider perspective. The analysis draws from a closed-door session at Becker’s 13^th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable and features candid input from health system leaders across the country.

Learnings include:

• How reimbursement pressure is reshaping provider technology priorities,
• Why current payer-provider processes create operational drag,
• What leaders see as realistic paths to better collaboration, and
• How regulatory changes could elevate the role of shared platforms.

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April 16, 2026

Whitepaper: How Henry Ford is Turning Diagnostics into a Strategic Advantage

For many health system leaders, diagnostics still sit outside the strategic conversation, viewed mainly as a clinical necessity and a cost center.

This report makes the case for a different approach. It shows how Henry Ford Health began treating diagnostics as a source of actionable information that can support better decisions, stronger clinical stewardship and greater economic value. Rather than focusing only on the cost per test, leaders explored how faster, better information could improve admission decisions, medication use and overall performance.

The result was a more integrated, end-to-end strategy. Henry Ford Health established diagnostic testing capabilities at almost 20 locations to support faster influenza testing and more timely decision-making. The system also reduced unnecessary blood cultures by more than 20% and saw a 35% reduction in CLABSI rates through stronger stewardship and collaboration across infection prevention, emergency medicine and the lab.

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• Why cost per test can miss the broader value of diagnostics,
• How Henry Ford Health used faster information to support better decisions,
• What diagnostic stewardship looked like in practice across the system, and
• How lab strategy can support both clinical and financial priorities.

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April 2, 2026

Whitepaper: 5 Strategies to Bring Discipline to Healthcare Labor Cost Management

Labor remains hospitals’ largest expense, yet many organizations still struggle to manage it effectively.

Persistent workforce shortages, rising premium labor and fluctuating patient demand have made traditional approaches insufficient. Organizations that rely on retrospective reporting often react too late, absorbing overtime costs and operational disruption.

This e-book outlines five proven labor management strategies used by high-performing healthcare organizations to better align staffing with demand, improve efficiency and sustain performance.

In this report, leaders will learn how to build a more structured, systemwide approach to labor management that connects daily decisions to long-term financial outcomes.

Insights include:

• Setting clear targets grounded in volume, rate and efficiency,
• Managing labor through consistent operating rhythms,
• Ensuring accountability at every level,
• Analyzing and reducing premium labor spend, and
• Approaching position control strategically.

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March 27, 2026

Whitepaper: Why Hospital Energy Strategy is Now a C-Suite Priority

Health systems are investing heavily in AI, digital care models and patient experience. But many are building on aging energy infrastructure never designed to support always-on digital operations and expanding clinical demands.

Outdated systems do more than increase maintenance costs. They constrain capacity for new technologies, heighten compliance risk and leave hospitals vulnerable to unplanned downtime that can delay procedures, disrupt care delivery and impact revenue.

In a recent survey of 150 healthcare leaders, 57 percent said minimizing downtime is their top energy priority, and 27 percent ranked resilience as their No. 1 strategic pillar.

This report examines how leading health systems are rethinking critical power as a clinical, operational and financial priority, moving beyond redundancy alone and toward digitally enabled resilience that supports uptime, compliance and long-term growth.

Inside, you’ll learn:

• Why backup redundancy alone no longer guarantees operational resilience,
• How digital power monitoring supports compliance, visibility and uptime, and
• What health systems are prioritizing in modern energy and infrastructure roadmaps.

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March 23, 2026

Whitepaper: Quiet at Night: A New Path to Calmer, More Restful Hospital Nights

How addressing unnecessary device alarms and managing them away from the bedside can help patient health and nurses focus.

Hospital noise levels have skyrocketed since the 1960s, turning patient rooms – especially at night – into spaces of fragmented sleep and stress. Much of the noise comes from medical device alarms that were designed to support safety but can interrupt patient recovery and overwhelm clinicians.

This paper explores how hospital leaders can restore rest and focus by tackling noise abd alarm fatigue at their source – combining workflow, culture and technology to address unnecessary alerts and route meaningful ones to the right clinicians.

Inside, you’ll learn:

• What has caused hospitals to become so noisy – and what to do about it, including adjusting workflows and making environmental updates,
• Practical ways to manage alarm load through smarter configurations,
• How the new SDC interoperability standard for medical devices enables alarm receipt and response away from the bedside, and
• Lessons from Cincinnati Children’s, which successfully silenced in-room monitors on med-surg units, and insights on ICU alarm culture from Grady Health System.

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