Rural Spotlight

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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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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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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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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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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April 28, 2026

Whitepaper: The Hidden Cost of the Status Quo: Why Healthcare Safety is the Defining Strategic Imperative for 2026

When clinicians worry about their safety, the impact reaches far beyond a single incident. Confidence drops, reporting suffers, turnover rises and operational strain spreads across the organization.

This healthcare safety report shows why best-in-class hospitals are treating safety as a strategic priority. It connects worker safety to workforce retention, trust and operational performance, giving leaders a clearer view of what is driving risk and what can improve outcomes.

The findings are drawn from an online survey of 1,014 healthcare employees across clinical, operational and executive roles. The results are hard to ignore – Nearly 85% of survey respondents have personally experienced a safety incident during their careers. More than 20% (1 in 5) have been involved in incidents that escalated to physical violence, and 76% of healthcare workers consider personal safety a daily concern.

One system that adopted connected safety technology saw violent incidents decline by 30% within six months, while incident reporting increased by 50%.

For leaders focused on sustaining care delivery, this report offers a practical look at how proactive safety programs can support both staff protection and organizational performance.

Download the report to learn:

• How safety affects retention, trust and operational resilience,
• What front-line trends reveal about workplace violence today,
• Where proactive safety programs are driving measurable change, and
• Why reporting culture matters for long-term improvement.

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