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Health Informatics in Health Information Management: A Growing Opportunity
July 01, 2025
By Trayanna Whiting, MSN, MS, RN, NI-BC, CHDA
Healthcare continues to move deeper into the digital world, and with this shift comes the growing importance of health informatics. As electronic health records (EHRs), data dashboards, and health information exchanges (HIEs) become increasingly standard, professionals who manage, protect, and interpret health data are playing a more crucial role than ever.
The Steward Debacle: Legal And Ethical Risks Of The New Breed Of Health Care For-Profits
September 5, 2025
By Mary Beckman, Jill Horwitz
For-profit health care in America is not new. What is new is the involvement of investors loosely known as “private equity” investors. These firms, which increasingly own various types of institutional providers and professional practice groups, dominate health care markets in many areas across the country. Traditional health regulation has proved ineffective at managing the risks of this trend: consolidation of medical service markets, rising prices, and extraction of profits for the benefit of investors, resulting in insufficient reinvestment in operations, financial instability, and care shortages caused by abrupt closures. Existing regulatory structures meant to ensure that health care organizations prioritize patient safety and well-being have failed to ensure access to even the expected minimum quality of health care.