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Published December 10, 2025 By Emilia Ochoa-Ruiz, MS, PMP Manager, California Telehealth Resource Center Toolkit Spotlight: The AI C-Suite Overview Toolkit  Helping executives lead confidently into the future of healthcare innovation  If there’s one thing every healthcare executive can agree on right now, it’s this: the demands on leadership have never been higher. Shrinking workforces.Read more

Published November 20, 2025 By Laura Tyrone, JD, MPH California’s 2025 legislative session brought a clear focus on digital health: lawmakers doubled down on AI transparency and safety, advanced data-exchange and telehealth infrastructure, and continued to bolster patient privacy. Across committees, two themes dominated — oversight of AI used in or adjacent to clinical care,Read more

Published November 14, 2025 By Sylvia Trujillo, MPP, JD A Message to C-Suite Leaders Facing Shrinking Resources, Workforce Strain, and Growing Demand Across rural and small-community health organizations, you’re facing a daunting combination: reimbursement pressures (including threats to Medicaid and 340B funding), rising administrative burden, persistent staff shortages, and increasing complexity of care. But it’s notRead more

By: Sylvia Trujillo, Executive Director, California Telehealth Resource Center (CalTRC) – 5.08.25    I’m pleased to invite you to the 13th Annual Digital Health Summit: Technology Supercycle Meets Healthcare taking place Wednesday, May 22, 2025. This virtual event brings together healthcare’s most influential voices to tackle our sector’s most pressing challenge: leveraging digital innovation toRead more

Keeping up with AI in California: 2025 Bills Authored By: Rebekah Glick (March 13, 2025) In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, California is at the forefront of health care AI. In today’s post, we’ll focus on bills that have been introduced in the current 2025-2026 California legislative session. Please note that these bills have beenRead more

The Health Care AI Blog: What to Expect in this Series  Authored by: Sylvia Trujillo  The adoption of artificial intelligence systems and tools (AI) is rapidly advancing in healthcare, offering new ways to enhance clinical decision-making, improve diagnostics, and optimize healthcare operations. However, AI systems are complex and often misunderstood. The regulatory environment increases theRead more

Authored By: Lydia Kotowski and ChatGPT 4 As the healthcare landscape evolves, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a transformative tool with the potential to improve patient outcomes, enhance operational efficiency, and support financial sustainability. Recently, we had the opportunity to review insights from the Health AI Partnership webinar, hosted by Duke AI Health andRead more

CLICK TO VIEW This checklist provides a set of questions for a health care provider to ask AI tool developers/vendors. By thoroughly evaluating the responses, healthcare providers can make informed decisions about acquiring and implementing AI tools that align with their clinical and operational needs while ensuring ethical, fair, and secure use.Read more

The rapid increase in advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems and applications in healthcare has occurred seemingly overnight.  Clinicians, operational staff, and provider leadership may not be aware that they are utilizing an AI system, may not know what questions to ask, nor know what policies, procedures, processes, and professional training should be in place toRead more

Program Specialist Aislynn Taylor representing CTRC at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum While it may seem like a far-off sci-fi future, the application of AI systems in health care is here now, and we should be ready for it to expand. Many clinicians aren’t aware of how much they are already using AI systemsRead more