Whitepapers

Healthcare procurement is under pressure from every direction including rising costs, supply uncertainty and growing expectations for quality. New research based on a national Advisory Board survey of over 100 health system supply chain and executive leaders reveals how organizations…

When AI investments fail to pay off, the problem is not lack of interest or excitement. It is the challenge of integrating AI into clinical workflows, building governance structures and earning clinician trust. Radiology offers a clearer path forward. Nearly…

Most physicians spend about one-third of their working hours in the EHR and on administrative tasks — time that comes directly out of patient interaction, judgment work and recovery between cases. AI is starting to shift that calculus, but for…

Health systems are facing a convergence of rising outpatient demand and tightening margins, forcing real estate decisions into the strategic spotlight. At the same time, limited construction and 92.7 percent occupancy rates are tightening supply. Delayed decisions can result in…

Provider data errors contribute to billions in annual denied-claim waste. Physicians and staff spend up to 13 hours per week navigating prior authorizations and denials, with a meaningful share tied to data errors. And 90% of patients say accurate provider…

When two long-standing neurologists scaled back their hospital involvement, Nash UNC Health Care faced an immediate gap in specialty coverage. Recruitment efforts came up short. Patient transfers to higher levels of care climbed. Care teams absorbed the strain. Leadership at…

Walk into almost any hospital ED today and behavioral health patients are waiting — sometimes for days. Inpatient units are holding patients with nowhere to safely discharge to. Outpatient referrals go unmet. And more than one-third of Americans live in…

For Chet Jenkins, DDS, chief dental officer of Signature Dental Partners, a 100-plus office DSO with more than 150 dentists, the challenge was familiar to growing DSOs: no reliable way to see how clinical care was being delivered location by…

Across hospitals, patient flow challenges are playing out daily — delayed discharges, constrained capacity and growing pressure on emergency departments. These issues rarely start in one department. They reflect how effectively patients move across the entire system, from admission through…

Pharmacy is no longer a cost center defending its budget. It is an enterprise lever, and the executives running it are being asked to behave — and be staffed — accordingly. At the 2026 CPO Summit, the chief pharmacy officers…