Interoperability

Starting Jan. 1, 2026, payers must send prior authorization decisions within 7 days and expedited decisions within 72 hours.

How can nursing leadership best shape the future of healthcare? With a shrinking workforce and growing incidents of workplace violence, what can we do right now to solve the challenges of today before they become the crises of tomorrow? What are the opportunities with emerging technology and AI to manage clinical outcomes and operational excellence?

Telemedicine delivers health equity and improved patient outcomes.

Researchers and developers have announced artificial intelligence tools that aim to shrink the time mental health providers spend on administrative tasks, provide faster triage, support clinical decision-making and improve patient access. 

How industry-specific partnerships enhance security against cyberattacks.

Healthcare organizations are increasingly adopting hybrid work models, with remote employees and mobile clinicians traveling between worksites. The dissolution of the traditional network perimeter and the growing number of both personal and corporate-issued devices accessing the networks are challenges that IT teams must meet with innovative solutions and strategic thinking.

MCPC, a leading IT managed services provider and T-Mobile for Business elite partner, helps healthcare organizations prioritize the patient experience through a comprehensive portfolio of lifecycle services that seamlessly delivers the planning, deployment, ongoing management and cyber hygiene of devices.

Health IT leaders at the recent HIMSS25 Public Health Data Modernization Forum said pushing for more data, and more data exchange, is essential to keeping pace with a fast-evolving healthcare industry.  

Once the AI was implemented with several accounts, the tool codified 99% of medications, 85% of sigs and 96% of allergies, Wise's director of operations and finance reports. It's an almost complete prevention of unmatched or invalid medications.

The 13-hospital network's CDS system also maintained stable patient experience scores – and data validated that cost reduction was achieved without compromising quality of care.