Walk through any healthcare conference today and you'll hear familiar conversations about artificial intelligence, interoperability, ambient documentation, digital transformation, and the next generation of electronic health records. Every session promises smarter technology, faster workflows, or better data. But beneath all of those conversations, something more fundamental is happening. That observation was reinforced at the recent 2026 Physician-Computer Connection (PCC)

Technology Isn't the Strategy Anymore By Keith Washington Walk through any healthcare conference today and you'll hear familiar conversations about artificial intelligence, interoperability, ambient documentation, digital transformation, and the next generation of electronic health records. Every session promises smarter technology, faster workflows, or better data. But beneath all of those conversations, something more fundamental is happening. That observation was reinf

You Can't Automate a Broken Workflow By Keith Washington Healthcare leaders spend a lot of time talking about broken technology. Clinicians complain about documentation burden. Executives worry about interoperability. IT teams struggle to integrate new applications into increasingly complex environments. Every year, organizations invest billions in new platforms, analytics tools, and AI capabilities intended to solve these problems. Yet many of the same frustrations per

Healthcare leaders spend a lot of time talking about broken technology. Clinicians complain about documentation burden. Executives worry about interoperability. IT teams struggle to integrate new applications into increasingly complex environments. Every year, organizations invest billions in new platforms, analytics tools, and AI capabilities intended to solve these problems. Yet many of the same frustrations persist. In a recent MedCity News article, Beyond the Bluepr

Retention, Recognition, and Reality: What Healthcare Is Missing About Workforce Stability By Elizabeth Jeanes, MBA-HM, BSN, RN, NPD-BC, EBP-C, LSSBB Healthcare Leader, Educator, and Advocate focused on workforce sustainability, leadership development, and healthcare innovation. Healthcare organizations across the country continue searching for solutions to burnout, staffing shortages, and workforce instability. Most conversations focus on recruitment: how to bring more peop

Healthcare organizations across the country continue searching for solutions to burnout, staffing shortages, and workforce instability. Most conversations focus on recruitment: how to bring more people into healthcare and fill vacancies faster. But after more than two decades in nursing, education, and leadership development, I believe the conversation must become bigger than hiring alone. One thing that stood out after my recent podcast conversation was how strongly healthca

Data governance sounds like a technical or operational issue until a clinician is forced to make a decision with incomplete, conflicting, or unclear information. In that moment, the problem is not whether the data exists somewhere in the system. The problem is whether the care team knows which source to trust, what the information actually means, and what action should happen next. That was the focus of a recent Beyond the Blueprint conversation with Dr. John Lee, President o

If you’ve spent any time in healthcare IT, you’ve probably noticed something: we’re not short on ideas, we’re short on alignment. Alignment between strategy and execution. Between clinical teams and IT. Between what gets discussed in boardrooms and what actually works on a Tuesday afternoon in a busy hospital. That gap is exactly why we launched Beyond the Blueprint. The podcast wasn’t designed to be another place to talk about trends. There are plenty of those. Instead, we w

If you’ve spent any time in healthcare IT, you’ve probably noticed something: we’re not short on ideas, we’re short on alignment. Alignment between strategy and execution. Between clinical teams and IT. Between what gets discussed in boardrooms and what actually works on a Tuesday afternoon in a busy hospital. That gap is exactly why we launched Beyond the Blueprint. The podcast wasn’t designed to be another place to talk about trends. There are plenty of those. Instead, we w

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