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Oracle Health Patient Accounting Implementation in Mature EHR Environment: What Clients Need to Know

Oracle Health Patient Accounting (OHPAC), also known as RevElate, is a major advancement in healthcare revenue cycle technology. Rather than forcing organizations to choose between a standalone patient accounting platform and a clinically integrated revenue cycle, OHPAC combines the strengths of both approaches. Dedicated patient accounting solutions, like OHPAC, allow for greater flexibility, scalability, and […]

Preparing for the Rural Health Transformation Program

The small town where I grew up had about 750 people and a county hospital. The hospital is gone now. The nearest emergency room sits more than 30 minutes away on a two-lane road. Since 2010, more than 200 rural facilities have closed or ended inpatient care. Mine was one of them. That experience is […]

Healthcare IT Consulting Services for Health Systems: Navigating Complexity with Integrated Expertise

There's a version of healthcare IT consulting that looks straightforward from the outside. A health system has a technology problem. A consulting firm has the expertise. Work gets done. The reality is considerably more complicated, and the gap between those two descriptions is where most consulting engagements either succeed or fall apart. I've spent my […]

How to Get Workday Certified: Paths, Exams and Eligibility

There is no single Workday certification or universal public enrollment path. Your options depend on whether you work for a Workday customer, work for a Workday partner, or participate through an approved education or talent-development program. Start with the role you want, such as administrator, functional consultant, integration specialist, reporting analyst, or platform specialist. Then […]

What is a System Health Check and Why You Need One

A System Health Check is a structured, independent assessment of your live healthcare IT enterprise systems (EHR, ERP, WFM) and the business operations it is meant to support. Conducted by experienced consultants, it evaluates your current configuration, how the system is actually being used, and where gaps between system capability and operational reality are creating […]

7 Things Worth Getting Right Before Your UKG Pro WFM Implementation Kicks Off

Having the right players in the right seats and knowing where to extend your bench is critical in any UKG Pro Workforce Management implementation. After working alongside health systems through every phase of UKG Pro Workforce Management from initial scoping through post-go-live optimization, patterns emerge. The implementations that go well are well planned and resourced. […]

The Clinical Necessity of Professional Kindness in Nursing

In healthcare, the concept of kindness is often misunderstood as informal or purely emotional. Within the nursing profession, kindness is a clinically relevant and measurable component of high-quality care. In professional terms, it aligns closely with emotional intelligence and interpersonal effectiveness, both of which are essential for maintaining patient dignity while supporting safe and coordinated […]

What Is Epic Healthy Planet? Population Health Explained

Epic Healthy Planet helps healthcare organizations manage population health and value-based care. Teams can use it to identify patient groups, find care gaps, stratify risk, coordinate outreach, run care-management programs, and track clinical and financial performance. By bringing together data from Epic and other sources, Healthy Planet gives care managers, clinicians, analysts, and leaders […]

OBBBA Compliance: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know About Qualified Overtime Reporting

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law on July 4, 2025 introduced a tax benefit that sounds simple: employees can deduct a portion of their overtime compensation from federal taxable income. But for healthcare providers already running complex payroll and workforce management environments, this is not a tax policy discussion. It's a systems […]

4 Things to Know About the Future of Epic & AI

This year’s Epic User Group Meeting (UGM) was packed with announcements, as Epic Systems continues to position itself as the enterprise platform, artificial intelligence (AI) engine, and healthcare data center of the future. From the unveiling of Epic CoMET to healthcare-focused enterprise resource planning (ERP) capabilities in EpicOps, here’s a recap of Epic’s latest developments—including […]

Lessons from Sanford Health: How to Create a Scalable Data Strategy that Works

Running a healthcare system with 56 hospitals, 288 clinics, and 2 million patients across 320,000 square miles is no small feat. For Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the U.S., managing data was like herding cats—90 different electronic health records (EHRs), an overloaded SAP HANA database, and a team stretched thin trying to […]

Everything You Should Know About Epic Teamwork: What’s Now and What’s Next

Let’s face it—healthcare technology is crowded with bold ideas and ‘game-changer’ solutions, but the real challenge is separating tomorrow’s buzz from today’s business value. One of these solutions is the new Epic Teamwork module, which is making waves in scheduling as part of Epic’s broader strategy of developing a natively-integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite. […]

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