Rural Spotlight

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.

Download the White Paper to Learn:

• 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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