One of the ways that Answers Media is different from other media sites is the sense of community. The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. We publish at least eight guest posts a week now, so in case you missed some, here are the top ten read and shared guest posts in the month of July. You can also read previous month’s Top Ten Lists. Thank you for contributing and reading.
Most Played Radio Episode in July
From the Unscripted The AMCP Podcast – On this episode guest host Denise Wolff, PharmD, CEO & Founder of Denise & Co., LLC, welcomes Zachary Contreras, PharmD, RPh, Director of Pharmacy Benefits, Sharp Health Plan, for a discussion on idiopathic hypersomnia (IH), a chronic neurological sleep disorder that remains widely underrecognized despite its profound impact on patients’ lives. Together, they explore the challenges of diagnosing IH, including a diagnostic delay that can exceed a decade, the significant burden the condition places on work, relationships, education, and overall quality of life, and the reasons many patients remain invisible within healthcare systems.
Most Read Thought Leader Posts in July
The EHR is Becoming Infrastructure. That Changes Everything.
By Michael Meucci, President and CEO, Arcadia
LinkedIn: Michael Meucci
LinkedIn: Arcadia
For nearly two decades, healthcare organizations have treated the electronic health record as the center of the digital universe. The technology helped healthcare transition from paper charts to digital records, standardized documentation, enabled billing workflows, and created the operational backbone modern health systems depend on today. Continue reading…
AI Medical Coding and the Evolution of Revenue Cycle Management
By Ubaid Pisuwala, Co-Founder & CTO, Peerbits
LinkedIn: Ubaid Pisuwala
LinkedIn: Peerbits
Revenue cycle management has always been the quiet engine behind a healthcare organization’s financial health. But for too long, that engine has run on outdated fuel manual processes, human error, and reactive denial management that costs U.S. providers billions of dollars each year. Continue reading…
Five Key Strategies to De-Risk R&D with Real-World Data
By Sujay Jadhav, CEO, Verana Health
LinkedIn: Sujay Jadhav
LinkedIn: Verana Health
In the complex, high-risk business of pharmaceutical research and development, sponsors face a challenge of picking target products with high therapeutic potential and acceptable safety profile. Then they must efficiently manage costs and timelines. Continue reading…
AI Can Make Healthcare More Human. Not Less.
By Prof. Eyal Zimlichman, Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Medical Officer, Sheba Medical Center
LinkedIn: Eyal Zimlichman, MD
LinkedIn: Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer
Seemingly everywhere you look, a wave of AI layoffs are hitting companies across dozens of industries. Tens of thousands of skilled workers are being let go in the name of administrative efficiency. Yet at the same time, others are finding creative ways to ensure AI enhances workers’ productivity rather than replacing them. Continue reading…
Hospitals Cannot Solve Financial Strain Without Fixing Medicaid Intake
By Peter Justen, Founder & CEO, AmeriTrust Solutions
LinkedIn: Peter Justen
LinkedIn: AmeriTrust Solutions
Hospitals across the country are facing mounting financial pressure, particularly in rural communities where margins are already thin and access to care is increasingly fragile. Rising uncompensated care, growing administrative complexity, and continued Medicaid uncertainty are placing additional strain on systems already operating with limited resources. Continue reading…
The Missing System Behind Mobile Healthcare
By Amit Bhatnagar, Founder, Swasthgram Global Foundation
LinkedIn: Amit (Social Entrepreneur) Bhatnagar
LinkedIn: Swasthgram Global Foundation
A 53-year-old woman moved through the ordinary processes of modern medicine in precisely the way the system demands. She had imaging done after suspicious findings appeared on a mammogram, then a biopsy, followed by a pathology report confirming malignancy. The result existed and had not been missed, misread, or hidden beyond the reach of care. It was inside the system, waiting for the system to do what it was meant to do next. Continue reading…
The Quiet Surge in Outpatient Revenue Risk: What Health Systems Are Missing
By Dana Finnegan, Senior Director of Market Strategy, MDaudit
LinkedIn: Dana Finnegan
LinkedIn: MDaudit
Inpatient denials have long dominated health system revenue integrity efforts. Yet a surge in outpatient and ambulatory care coding errors and documentation gaps now threatens revenue, often slipping under the radar and creating significant new risks. Recent analysis of 5 billion healthcare claims and remits from more than 1.2 million providers and 4,500 facilities also shows another trend: Continue reading…
The Independent Community Hospital: An Endangered Institution
By Dr. Mark Pratt, Chief Medical Officer, Altera Digital Health
LinkedIn: Mark Pratt, MD
LinkedIn: Altera Digital Health
We celebrate major milestones, like the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding, by noting the contributions of national institutions like our federal government, libraries and national parks. We don’t typically categorize our hospitals in the same way, but they are vital to the fabric of our communities. Continue reading…
Beyond the Badge: Data Quality in the Age of Continuous Validation
By Nathan Elliott, Director of Professional Services, J2 Interactive
LinkedIn: C. Nathan Elliott
LinkedIn: J2 Interactive
When NCQA validated its first ten clinical data streams in late 2021, Data Aggregator Validation looked like an experiment. Four years on, it looks like infrastructure. The program’s eleventh cohort opened in January 2026, and NCQA reports that fifty organizations across twenty-one states have now completed more than 130 validations. Continue reading…
Before Deploying Healthcare AI Agents, Providers Need a Cost-of-Control Plan
By Kajol Shah, Director, Budventure Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
LinkedIn: Kajol Bhatt
LinkedIn: Budventure Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Healthcare organizations are moving quickly from AI pilots to AI-enabled workflows. What began as administrative chatbots and documentation support is now expanding into AI agents that can assist with scheduling, intake, patient communication, clinical documentation, revenue cycle tasks, and information retrieval across connected systems. Continue reading…
