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When the going gets tough…

It’s no secret we’re in a tough financial climate. That can make it hard to focus on anything but the immediate bottom line—but to weather this financial storm, that’s exactly what health systems will need to do.

That means opening up the playbook to more than just cost-cutting, and looking for ways to optimize digital investments for immediate value. It means rethinking the possibilities of digital workforce solutions and smart scheduling to help the workers you already have work more effectively. And most of all, it means taking rapid, decisive action with digital. Let’s get started.

Industry insights

• Harnessing digital to navigate turbulent financial headwinds [AVIA]
• Mayo Clinic study finds high accuracy in telehealth diagnoses [Becker’s]
• Public health needs to be transformed. Health IT can help [Stat News]
• Pandemic-era telehealth expansion reduced opioid overdoses, study shows [Fierce Healthcare]
• U.S. life expectancy falls again in ‘historic’ setback [New York Times]

Resource of the week

Health systems need ways to rapidly improve their bottom lines while positioning themselves for long-term stability. Digital offers the best opportunity, with the potential to redesign cost structures and help health systems meet their mission and margin.

Watch our on-demand webinar, Need for speed: Navigating financial headwinds with digital, to learn the short-term, high-impact moves that health systems like yours can make with digital to rapidly deliver significant ROI.

What we’re into this week

Read: This Is Your Mind on Plants, an engaging and entertaining exploration of humanity’s fascination with drugs and the plants they come from, from tea and coffee to opium and magic mushrooms

Listen: to You Must Remember This, a podcast that explores the forgotten history of 20th Century Hollywood, from the scandals of 1930s Tinseltown to the Red Scare and beyond

Watch: Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the latest entry in J.R.R. Tolkien’s long-running fantasy epic, this time as a big-budget Amazon Prime series set three millennia before the films