The Healthccare Burnout Backlask (pt 4): Why Contract Negotiation Has Become a Core Strategic Skill for Healthcare Administrators

By Melissa Corneal

Traditionally, contract negotiation has been viewed as a financial or legal responsibility, typically led by finance teams, legal counsel, or executive leadership, with operations stepping in afterward to execute against decisions that have already been made, but that model is evolving as healthcare delivery becomes more interconnected and operationally complex, requiring administrators to engage earlier in the process, not only to understand what is being agreed to but to help define how those agreements will function in real-world environments.

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The Healthcare Burnout Backlash (pt 3): How Workflow Redesign Is Helping Healthcare Organizations Offset Staffing Shortages

By Melissa Corneal

As organizations introduce additional technologies, including AI-enabled tools and CRM platforms, these gaps become more pronounced. Those that are seeing meaningful improvements are taking an end-to-end view, evaluating how systems interact within a unified workflow and ensuring that data flows seamlessly and actions are triggered in a coordinated manner, thereby reducing the need for manual intervention and follow-up.

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FHIR

HL7 FHIR: A global passport for medicines information

By Lisa Nussbaumer

FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) is an open standard designed to streamline data sharing within national healthcare systems and across systems in different countries. Its introduction aims to bring more consistency to patient care, ensuring that no matter where healthcare professionals (HCPs) are located, they can access the same up-to-date information on medications and their patients.

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