Board-level Sponsorship & Continuous Tabletop Exercises – Now, Baseline

Most Important Today

• ★ Oracle Wants to Be Healthcare’s Partner—Will the Industry Let It? — Colin Hung — 9 Oct 2025
  At OHLSSummit 2025, Seema Verma highlighted Oracle’s efforts to automate prior authorization, embed clinical trials in the patient portal, and connect ERP/supply chain with the EHR to promote openness across the care continuum.
  Why It Matters: For CIOs, Oracle’s strategy tests your interoperability posture and the business case for converging EHR and ERP workflows—potentially reducing denials friction, supply delays, and operational waste.
• ★ Proactively Addressing the Most Common Cybersecurity Threats Facing Healthcare IT Systems — Grayson Miller — 9 Oct 2025
  Industry leaders outline today’s most prevalent healthcare cyber risks—ransomware, data breaches, and identity threats—along with practical defenses and governance essentials.
  Why It Matters: Strengthen identity controls, segmentation, patching cadence, and incident response; board-level sponsorship and continuous tabletop exercises are now baseline to limit downtime and financial/clinical impact.
• ★ Cyber security expert calls for public inquiry into Synnovis attack — Jordan Sollof — 9 Oct 2025
  A UK cybersecurity expert urges a public inquiry into the Synnovis ransomware attack, which contributed to at least one patient death, amplifying scrutiny on health sector cyber resilience and third‑party risk.
  Why It Matters: Expect heightened regulatory pressure and due diligence on suppliers; invest in third‑party risk management, downtime playbooks, and clinical safety cases tied to cyber events.

EHR Vendor Releases / Sales

• ★ Cohere Health Brings Pre-Care Insights and Clinical AI to Health Plan Payment Integrity — Healthcare IT News — 9 Oct 2025
  Cohere Health acquired ZignaAI and launched a Payment Integrity suite anchored by Cohere Validate, aiming for near real-time, AI-driven claims payment decisions and a “shift right” of clinical intelligence from prior auth to payment integrity.
  Why It Matters: Provider revenue cycle teams should anticipate new payer review patterns; align documentation and coding workflows to reduce denials friction and evaluate integration points with UM/PA systems.

Hospital Implementations

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Other Healthcare Technology

• ★ Modern Risk Adjustment: Building a Framework for Resilience and Precision — Guest Author — 9 Oct 2025
  Guidance on modernizing risk adjustment amid accelerating value-based care—leveraging AI, data quality, coding integrity, and evolving standards like TEFCA.
  Why It Matters: For organizations in VBC, prioritize accurate documentation, analytics-enabled coding review, and data interoperability to safeguard RAF accuracy and compliance.
• ★ Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕ — Cora Lydon — 9 Oct 2025
  A roundup including a call for an EU women’s health strategy by 2029 and new investment for Good Boost, among other digital health updates.
  Why It Matters: Emerging policy and funding signals shape medium‑term priorities—track women’s health strategy timelines and community-health tech investments for partnership opportunities.
• ★ First national keynotes announced for Rewired 2026 — Jordan Sollof — 9 Oct 2025
  Three national clinical leaders will headline Rewired 2026, spotlighting digital ambitions tied to the NHS 10‑year health plan.
  Why It Matters: For UK providers and vendors, expect strategic signals on interoperability, single patient records, and digital nursing/clinical leadership—use to calibrate roadmaps.
• ★ Egos are the biggest challenge to NHS tech adoption, says Tang — Jordan Sollof — 9 Oct 2025
  NHSE’s CDIO argues leadership egos and turf battles hinder technology adoption more than the tech itself, calling for culture and governance shifts.
  Why It Matters: Successful digital change hinges on governance, clinical engagement, and incentives—prioritize shared outcomes, transparent KPIs, and change management over tool proliferation.

Why It Matters — A Healthcare Leader’s Perspective

Today underscores three imperatives: harden cyber resilience (including third‑party risk) as regulatory and safety scrutiny intensifies; prepare for convergence across EHR, ERP, and payer workflows where AI is reshaping prior auth, payment integrity, and documentation; and lean into leadership and governance to unlock adoption. The ROI will come from streamlined denials, fewer operational handoffs, and reduced downtime—if paired with strong interoperability contracts, identity controls, and disciplined change management.