Rural and small healthcare entities face the same cyber threats as the nation's largest health systems, but often lack the tools to combat them in the same way. From funding scarcity to workforce shortages, rural healthcare organizations must balance the need for an effective cybersecurity program with ongoing operational constraints. How can rural healthcare providers manage risk while understaffed and underfunded?

Featuring: Jim Roeder, vice president of IT at Lakewood Health System

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To learn more about healthcare cybersecurity, check out our Healthtech Security site.

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Revenue cycle management is rife with data issues and automatable processes--making it ripe for AI implementation. How can providers use AI tools to reduce their revenue cycle management workload?

Featuring: Jacqueline LaPointe, executive editor, lead editor on Rev Cycle Management, Xtelligent

Anuja Vaidya, senior editor on Virtual Healthcare, Xtelligent

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As virtual nursing programs transform healthcare delivery, discover how this digital revolution is leveraging technology and human expertise to address widespread staffing shortages while enhancing both the patient and provider experience. Explore how hospitals and health systems are currently using virtual nurses, the successes they have already had and how the trend will evolve in the next five to ten years. 

Featuring: Jacqueline LaPointe, executive editor at Xtelligent Healthcare 

Anuja Vaidya, senior editor, Virtual Healthcare at Xtelligent Healthcare 

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References 

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FDA’s removal of GLP-1 drugs from the shortage list ends supplemental compounding, shifting patient access back to branded semaglutide and tirzepatide.

Featuring: Sara Heath, executive editor, Xtelligent Healthcare

Alivia Kaylor, senior editor of Pharma Life Sciences, Xtelligent Healthcare

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To learn more about GLP-1s, check out our Pharma Life Sciences and Patient Engagement sites.

Street medicine is taking off in cities nationwide as part of the industry's effort to address a rampant housing insecurity crisis and boost population health. Driven by mobile medical units outfitted to look more like primary care offices, these street medicine teams are moving unhoused individuals to better health and preparing them for stable, supportive housing.

But street medicine programs aren't successful just because of the clinicians and their supped-up sprinter vans. Rather, it's the peer navigators or community health workers to make these community-based interventions what they are. Learn more about how California-based Healthcare in Action providers and peer navigators work to support better street medicine.

Featuring: Benjamin Kaska, PA, vice president of development and partnerships, Healthcare in Action

Eric Berrera, lead peer navigator, Healthcare in Action

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References

To learn more about community-based care and population health, visit our Patient Engagement site.

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The first 100 days of the second Trump presidency were marked by new, wide-ranging tariffs and executive orders along with workforce cuts and leadership changes. What are the immediate and long-term impacts of these shifts? And how has the healthcare industry responded?

Featuring: Alivia Kaylor, senior editor for Pharma Life Sciences at Xtelligent

Jacqueline LaPointe, executive editor of Editorial at Xtelligent

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Fortra, the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC), and Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit teamed up to combat abuse of Cobalt Strike, a legitimate adversary simulation tool that cyberthreat actors have taken a liking to. The collaborative efforts resulted in an 80% reduction in unauthorized copies of Cobalt Strike observed in the wild. What does this success story say about the value of industry collaboration in healthcare cybersecurity? 

Featuring: Bob Erdman, associate vice president, research and development at Fortra 

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References 

To learn more about healthcare cybersecurity, check out our Healthtech Security site. 

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The Connecticut Poison Control Center receives on average a hundred calls a day and operates 24/7. To handle such an immense workload, the Center relies on one tool to sustain and improve its emergency response: the state's health information exchange (HIE), Connie. How does this HIE help the Center save lives? Listen to find out!

Featuring: Suzanne Doyon, MD, medical director of the Connecticut Poison Control Center at UConn Health

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The healthcare industry has been shifting from fee-for-service to value-based care and payment for decades now with not much to show for it as a whole. How can employers and other healthcare purchasers achieve value amid soaring costs and worsening disease burden?  

Featuring: Shawn Gremminger, president and CEO of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions 

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HIMSS25 ran from March 3-6 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It attracted thousands of industry leaders and featured a predominant theme: artificial intelligence. How did the industry approach this topic in 2025, and what surprising talking points arose?

Featuring: Rebecca Pifer, senior reporter at Healthcare Dive

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To learn more about AI in healthcare, check out Healthtech Analytics.

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