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Webinar: Inside Best in KLAS for Ambient AI: Research-Backed Insights for Leading Healthcare Executives, March 5

February 20, 2026

Webinar: Inside Best in KLAS for Ambient AI: Research-Backed Insights for Leading Healthcare Executives, March 5

Best in KLAS is one of the most trusted and influential recognitions in healthcare technology, but what actually goes into determining the winners?

In this webinar< Mac Boyter, Senior Research Director for Payer/Provider and Documentation Solutions at KLAS, offers a behind-the-scenes look at how Bist in KLAS is defined, evaluated, and awarded. The conversation will take a focused deep dive into:

  • The Ambient Speech AI category,
  • Exploring how the category was developed,
  • What makes it distinct, and
  • What it takes for vendors to rise to the top.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, March 5, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Whitepaper: The Critical Balance: How Hospital Medicine Aligns Patient Acuity and System Capacity to Protect Access to Care

February 20, 2026

Whitepaper: The Critical Balance: How Hospital Medicine Aligns Patient Acuity and System Capacity to Protect Access to Care

American hospitals face an unprecedented convergence of crises threatening patient access to care. Hospital occupancy has surged to 75% – an 11-percentage-point increase from prepandemic levels – and is projected to reach a critical 85% threshold by 2032. At the same time, observation patient volumes continue to rise while inpatient days decline, and health care faces a projected shortage of 187,130 physicians by 2037.

These challenges are not isolated problems – they are interconnected symptoms of a health care system struggling to balance two fundamental imperatives: acuity management and capacity management.

In this white paper, Rodolphe Taby, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Hospital and Critical Care Medicine at SCP Health, examines how hospital medicine can transform these converging crises into opportunities through strategic leadership at the intersection of clinical operations and system capacity.

Read to learn more about how hospitalists can orchestrate the critical balance between patient acuity and system capacity including:

  • Length-of-stay optimization that creates “virtual capacity” without construction costs or additional staffing.
  • Standardized observation medicine pathways that reduce care variation while improving patient throughput.
  • Strategic workforce deployment that aligns clinician skillsets and scopes of practice with patient needs.
  • The virtuous cycle where better acuity management drives optimized capacity management, and vice versa.

Hospital medicine is uniquely positioned to balance acuity and capacity management, turning operational pressures into opportunities for strategic growth an improved performance.

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Whitepaper: Securing the Future of Connected Care: Survey Insights on Cyber Resilience in Patient Monitoring

February 19, 2026

Whitepaper: Securing the Future of Connected Care: Survey Insights on Cyber Resilience in Patient Monitoring

As more patient monitoring devices connect to clinical networks and EHRs, health systems face a new frontier of cybersecurity risk. A Becker’s-Philips survey of 100 healthcare leaders found that only half feel their organizations have a moderately or highly mature cybersecurity strategy. The rest either cited minimal cybersecurity maturity or early-stage maturity.

This whitepaper shares real-world data and executive insights on how organizations are adapting patient monitoring cybersecurity. The report makes the case for why resilience, not just protection, must be the end goal.

Download now to explore:

  • Why 50% of leaders say their cybersecurity maturity is still early-stage or minimal,
  • The top cyber risks executives worry about most, and
  • How top systems are pairing stronger defenses with resilience strategies to maintain safe operations during attacks.

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Webinar: RHC Billing 101, February 24

February 19, 2026

Webinar: RHC Billing 101, February 24

In this session, Charles James with North American HMS will present on the basic billing requirements for Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), including recent changes you should be aware of.

Attendees will leave confident in their understanding of basic RHC billing and its nuances and prepared to share critical updates with their colleagues and leadership.

This webinar will offer time for Q&A.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, February 24, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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Rural Health Research: Examining the Burden of Chronic Disease and Low SES to Identify High-Need Rural Counties

February 19, 2026

Rural Health Research: Examining the Burden of Chronic Disease and Low SES to Identify High-Need Rural Counties

This study identifies rural counties with high chronic disease burden and low socioeconomic status; describes the geographic and demographic patterns of these high-need counties; and examines whether counties with greater need also experience reduced geographic access to critical health care services.

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From Cost to Care: How Healthcare Teams Can Support Patient Experience and Practice Success

February 19, 2026

From Cost to Care: How Healthcare Teams Can Support Patient Experience and Practice Success

In fall of 2025, a multidisciplinary group of healthcare experts came together in a virtual roundtable discussion to address how current trends in practice and the greater industry affect both patients and providers. Their core insights are presented here as actionable strategies for healthcare providers navigating financial pressures and striving to meet ever-changing patient needs, all through a lens of transparency and trust.

The discussion and this report are supported by CareCredit, a Synchrony health and wellness patient financing solution.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

  • Understand how sharing prices and coverage upfront can help patients know what to expect, which may help reduce delays so more patients can move forward with care.
  • Get actionable tips to normalize cost conversations and offer payment options, like the CareCredit credit card, which promote transparency and helps build patient trust.
  • See why industry experts recommend mapping the entire patient journey and hiring for service skills to help enhance patient experience and staff retention.

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Webinar: Faster, Smarter, Safer: How Health Systems Thrive in an Era of Constant Disruption, March 26

February 19, 2026

Webinar: Faster, Smarter, Safer: How Health Systems Thrive in an Era of Constant Disruption, March 26

Health systems no longer experience episodic disruption. Today, disruption is continuous, overlapping and accelerating faster than traditional leadership models were designed to handle.

Labor pressure, reimbursement uncertainty, AI acceleration, partnership complexity and changing consumer expectations are colliding at once. This executive conversation examines how health system leaders are operating at the edge of constant disruption without increasing risk. Rather than debating tools or frameworks, the discussion centers on real decision-making inside complex operating environments.

During this session, senior health system leaders will share how they are rethinking governance, prioritization and leadership behaviors to move faster while protecting clinical, financial and operational stability.

Attendees will learn:

  • Where leadership teams unintentionally slow decision-making and how to remove friction without compromising oversight,
  • Which decisions are commonly over-governed and how to reset decision rights,
  • How executives cut through vendor noise to identify true strategic priorities, and
  • What leadership capabilities will matter most over the next three to five years.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, March 26, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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Webinar: Glycemic Safety Under CMS Scrutiny: Where Performance Gaps Emerge and How Leaders are Closing Them, March 17

February 18, 2026

Webinar: Glycemic Safety Under CMS Scrutiny: Where Performance Gaps Emerge and How Leaders are Closing Them, March 17

With CMS requiring reporting of severe hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, inpatient glycemic safety is moving from a clinical priority to a visible system-level performance measure Hospitals are now being asked not only to manage glucose safety, but to demonstrate consistent, measurable results.

In many organizations, variation in workflows, documentation practices, and insulin management approaches can make it difficult to deliver uniform performance across complex inpatient environments. Under CMS scrutiny, these gaps become more apparent and more consequential.

In this session, healthcare leaders will explore where glycemic safety efforts commonly fall short and how organizations are strengthening reliability across teams, units, and clinical scenarios. The conversation will focus on practical strategies to support frontline clinicians, standardize execution, and align glycemic management with evolving CMS expectations.

Learnings Include:

  • How CMS reporting is changing the expectations for inpatient glycemic safety,
  • Where operational and workflow variability can undermine performance,
  • Strategies leaders are using to improve consistency without limiting clinical judgment, and
  • What it means to measure, monitor, and sustain glycemic safety at scale.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, March 17, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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