First brief
The first brief publishes ahead of the Inaugural Executive Forum.
Subscribe above and it arrives the morning it goes out. Every brief is archived here afterward.
Every weekday
Three sections, one through-line.
Less administrative work. Better patient care. A better working life for the people who deliver it.
01
Act today
Insights a leader can act on this week: what happened, the one move to make, and the roles it falls to.
02
Thirty days out
Rules, releases, deadlines and decisions arriving within thirty days, each with its date, so nothing lands unannounced.
03
Heard on the podcasts
What Moonshots, All-In, No Priors and the rest said that applies to medicine. Business, science and technology only, never politics.
Read it for your seat
Nine lenses, one brief.
AI is no longer the CIO's subject alone. Every item carries a line for the roles it touches; subscribers receive the brief ordered for theirs.
CEO and board
Strategy, capital, risk, partnerships and what the board will ask next quarter.
COO and operations
Access, throughput, capacity, scheduling, supply and the daily machinery of care.
CFO and revenue cycle
Cost, denials, prior authorization, coding, payer behavior and the business case for every tool.
CIO and CTO
Platforms, data, integration, vendor selection and what it takes to run AI in production across every department.
CISO and security
Threats, breaches, vendor risk, identity, AI-specific attack surface, and the defenses a health organization can stand up this quarter. Dedicated research, every day.
Chief Medical Officer and physicians
Documentation, decision support, clinical workflow, evidence and the hours a physician gets back.
CNO and nursing
Staffing, virtual nursing, bedside workflow, handoffs and what reaches the nurse's shift.
CHRO
Workforce, training, hiring, adoption, policy and how roles change when the work does.
Chief Marketing Officer
Patient acquisition, reputation, referral relationships, content, the digital front door and how AI changes the relationship with patients and referrers rather than only the funnel.
Compliance, privacy and legal
Regulation, consent, liability, privacy, audit and what has to be documented.
Patient experience
The front door, contact centers, voice AI, waits, handoffs and the patient's first thirty seconds.
What we cover
Eight beats, five kinds of organization.
Tight on purpose. AI and technology as they land in the places that deliver and pay for care, from the hospital to the med spa.
- Ambient documentation and clinical AI
- Voice, contact centers and the patient front door
- Revenue cycle, prior authorization and payment
- Workforce, training and burnout
- Data, platforms, security and sovereignty
- Regulation and policy
- Evidence and research
- What the AI platforms shipped
- Cybersecurity and resilience
- Robotics and physical AI
- Deals, funding and vendor moves
Who it is for
- Physician groups and multi-location practices
- Hospitals and health systems
- Wellness, aesthetics and longevity practices
- Senior living, home health and post-acute care
- Health plans and payers
How it is made
Named sources, fact before claim, labelled by kind, apolitical always, relationships disclosed, drafted by Lumen and approved by a person. The method and the sources.
The Round, the fortnightly letter, draws its signal from these briefs. About The Round.