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Healthcare security teams already collect signals from across their systems. The challenge is connecting thousands of alerts quickly enough to act. That urgency is growing. The average healthcare data breach costs $7.42 million, according to IBM, while attackers are using…

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America’s aging population is changing what health systems are asked to deliver, and the pressure is landing hardest on the specialties responsible for chronic disease, complex conditions, procedural care and preventive health. Cardiology, vascular care, oncology, gastroenterology, radiology, anesthesiology, primary…

Nov 12, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST

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  • Andrea Leland, MBA, CPRP, System Vice President, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics
  • Garth Weidmann, Division Vice President, AMN Healthcare
  • Teague Morton, Vice President, Permanent Placement, AMN Healthcare

For multi-location dental groups, the month-end close is too often a manual, high-stress scramble — and the more locations and entities you add, the harder it gets. But the close is more than a back-office chore. How quickly and cleanly…

Sep 28, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Dawn Johanknecht, CPA, CFO, Szmanda Dental Center SC
  • Angie Hopper, MAcc, COO, Premier Dental Center
  • Peter Rivoli, Managing Partner; Owner, Founder and Orthodontist, High Rye Dental. Rivoli Dental
  • Sherry Hassler, COO & EOS Integrator, Today’s Dental
  • Melissa O'Dowd, Director, Growth – Healthcare & Nonprofit Verticals, Sage

Sepsis asks emergency departments to do two things at once: find the high-risk patients quickly, and avoid spending treatment and resources on the patients who don’t need them. Every unnecessary workup occupies a bed, a nurse and a budget line…

Oct 27, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Chadd Kraus, DO, DrPH, CPE, FACEP, Emergency Physician and Vice Chair, Research, Department of Emergency and Hospital Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network
  • Nancy Jacobson, MD, Associate Professor; System Director, Quality, Safety, and Experience ; Medical Director, Emergency Medicine; Patient Safety and Quality Officer, Emergency Medicine
  • Jamie Aranda, MD, Associate Professor; Medical Director, Froedtert Hospital Emergency Department; System Director, Advanced Practice Providers
  • Tonya Jagneaux, MD, MSHI, MSA, Chief Quality Officer, Louisiana Quality Network; Chief Medical Analytics Officer, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System
  • Dhruvangkumar A. Modi, MD, MPH, Medical Director, ICU, Texas Health Denton; Regional Medical Director, Exceed Healthcare

Today’s CIOs are faced with countless opportunities to invest in AI, but with little more than promises that any project will result in measurable ROI. If we believe AI can transform operations across the hospital, what’s the right decision framework?…

Nov 10, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
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  • Scott Arnold, Chief Information Officer and EVP, Tampa General Hospital
  • Roberta Schwartz, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer and EVP, Houston Methodist
  • J.D. Whitlock, Chief Information Officer, Dayton Children’s Hospital

Correspondence arrives in your revenue cycle continuously. Remittance advice, Explanation of Benefits (EOB) forms, payer denial letters, refund requests, and patient payments come by mail, by fax, and in a single prepared file from your bank. Your team opens each…

Oct 22, 2026 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM CDT

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  • Meg Mehlberg, Managing Director of Healthcare, Naviant
  • Jon Knisley, Director of AI Value Management, ABBYY

AI is actively reshaping the dental market, opening new ways to rethink how revenue cycle work is structured and delivered. But technology alone does not guarantee stronger RCM performance. The greater opportunity for DSOs and dental groups is to pair…

Sep 30, 2026 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDT

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  • Raju Siva, Chief AI Officer, Medusind
  • Adam FitzGerald, SVP, Dental & Strategic Initiatives, Medusind

Ryan Lee, DDS, was recently appointed chief dental officer at Community Health Clinics, a multi-location FQHC in Massachusetts. Dr. Lee has previously held several leadership roles in academia, public health, private practice and the military. He currently serves as lieutenant…

As DSOs and dental groups scale, many still turn to the external labor market to fill talent gaps, but the next source of growth may already be on staff. Hiring from outside can mean recruiting experienced dentists, bringing in outside…

Little Rock, Ark.-based Rock Dental Brands recently added a Tennessee orthodontics practice to its network.  The DSO partnered with Burr Orthodontics in Dickson, Tenn., according to a Sept. 22 LinkedIn post. The practice is led by Jerome Burr, DDS. The…

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