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Healthcare organizations today face an unprecedented challenge: managing vast amounts of patient data scattered across disparate systems, departments, and platforms. Electronic health records, laboratory systems, imaging platforms, billing systems, and clinical applications often operate in isolation, creating data silos that hinder efficient care delivery and strategic decision-making. The solution lies not merely in advanced integration…

By Ed Rosas | November 25, 2025 When healthcare executives embark on interoperability initiatives, they typically budget for technical challenges: legacy system integration, data standardization, and vendor coordination. Yet industry data reveals a troubling pattern: these projects consistently exceed timelines by 200-300%, often taking years longer than anticipated. The culprit, however, is not what most…

By Ed Rosas | October 21, 2025 The economy — not to mention the current situation in the country — is literally making it harder for American workers to be happy. If the job market had a status page, it would probably read: degraded performance, not an outage. New figures reveal just 47% are confident…

By: Ed Rosas | October 18, 2025   The healthcare industry is amid an unprecedented cybersecurity calamity in 2025, with data breaches at staggering new highs. For the 14th straight year, the industry also faces the highest breach cost across any sector, and ransomware attacks as well as highly sophisticated cyber-attacks have not slowed down.…

By: Ed Rosas | October 13, 2025   The enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits are at a crossroads, set to expire on December 31, 2025. For healthcare leaders across the United States, understanding the cascading effects of this potential lapse represents more than policy analysis: it demands strategic preparation for a scenario that…

By: Ed Rosas | September 27, 2025 Healthcare supply chain disruptions can have devastating consequences, from delayed surgeries to compromised patient safety. Traditional reactive approaches to inventory management leave organizations vulnerable to shortages, cost overruns, and operational inefficiencies. However, artificial intelligence is revolutionizing healthcare supply chain management by enabling predictive capabilities that identify and address…

By: Ed Rosas | September 22, 2025 The healthcare digital transformation landscape is littered with expensive failures, broken promises, and misleading success stories that industry insiders rarely discuss openly. While technology vendors showcase polished case studies and healthcare executives tout their latest digital initiatives, the reality behind closed doors reveals a dramatically different picture: one…

By: Ed Rosas | September 12, 2025 The success of IT modernization initiatives hinges not merely on the sophistication of new technologies, but on the readiness of the workforce to embrace, implement, and optimize these systems. As organizations across healthcare, government, and enterprise sectors invest billions in digital transformation: with global spending projected to reach…

By: Ed Rosas | September 6, 2025 The Federal Health IT Strategic Plan has become more than just a policy document: it’s a mirror reflecting the digital transformation challenges plaguing healthcare organizations across the nation. As we examine the 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan alongside its predecessor, a pattern emerges that reveals critical mistakes…

Healthcare supply chain management has reached a critical juncture where traditional approaches no longer suffice to meet the complex demands of modern healthcare delivery. With nearly 80% of healthcare providers and 84% of suppliers expecting supply chain challenges to worsen or remain unchanged over the next year, organizations must confront systemic issues that directly impact…

By: Ed Rosas | September 4, 2025   The choice between EHR integration and true interoperability represents one of the most critical strategic decisions facing healthcare organizations today. While both approaches aim to connect healthcare systems and improve data flow, they differ fundamentally in their scope, implementation, and long-term impact on patient care and operational…

Gratitude. Perspective. Purpose – Lessons from Peru and a Renewed Commitment to Serving Our Veterans By Jen Rosas – August 4, 2025 Our family just returned from a 10-day mission trip to a small community outside Lima, Peru called Perales, and the experience is still fresh in our hearts and minds. The people we met,…

Empowering Employees to Grow Personally and Professionally at Avetus Partners Empowering employees to grow both personally and professionally is at the core of Avetus Partners’ philosophy and ongoing success. Rather than being a simple HR initiative, this commitment shapes the company’s culture and fuels innovation, productivity, and resilience. When employees are trusted with decision-making, supported…

June 30, 2025 | By: Ed Rosas The landscape of health information technology (health IT) is evolving rapidly, driven by new technologies, shifting public health priorities, and lessons learned from recent global challenges. The 2025–2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in collaboration…

June 26, 2025 | By: Ed Rosas In today’s dynamic and highly regulated government contracting environment, strategic partnerships are more than a competitive advantage—they are essential to delivering on the complex and urgent needs of government clients. The stakes are high: government agencies face strict compliance requirements, tight timelines, and missions that directly impact public…