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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

I never imagined my most powerful lesson in healthcare IT would come from a hospital bed. During my high-risk pregnancy, I watched firsthand what it means when clinical technology works the way it should and understood what is at stake when it doesn’t. My son Jake was born at just four pounds but went home

In Part One, we shared the story behind our brand refresh and the belief that has guided Healthcare IT Leaders for 15 years: that healthcare only works with the right humans in the loop. In this second installment, we go deeper exploring the four service pillars that define how we show up for health systems,

Healthcare IT has never been short on complexity. New platforms. Mergers. Regulatory mandates. The relentless pressure to do more with tighter margins and thinner teams. And through all of it, one truth has held constant since we founded Healthcare IT Leaders in 2011: Healthcare only works with humans in the loop. It’s the reason we

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.

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

Celebrating Michigan Deployments Alongside Booz Allen Hamilton Healthcare IT Leaders is proud to be part of the ground team for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Michigan locations go-live for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) modernization effort alongside our partner Booz Allen Hamilton, and the teams at Oracle Health and Accenture Federal Services. Since

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

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

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