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Robotic-assisted joint reconstruction has reshaped how surgeons plan and perform total joint procedures. Most of the attention goes to implant positioning and surgical precision. Far less goes to the operating room that has to support those procedures day after day.…

Sep 24, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT

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  • James Germano, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon, Joint Reconstruction Specialist
  • Tim Tzimas, President & CEO, Innovative Sterilization Technologies

Explore the often overlooked preanalytical factors that can impact urinalysis accuracy, from collection and transport to storage, preservation, and handling. This session reviews common causes of false-positive and false-negative results, current CLSI, EFLM, and ASM best practices, and practical strategies…

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Picture an inpatient room where the bedside nurse, virtual clinician, patient and operational leader are connected through a unified care environment, with virtual nursing extending the care team, AI-assisted safety monitoring supporting patients and clinicians, and digital technologies creating a…

Sep 28, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Mandy Richards, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Chief Nursing Executive, Intermountain Health

Healthcare workforce strategy has become an enterprise issue. As healthcare organizations rely on increasingly varied workforce models, the external contracting infrastructure supporting that workforce often remains fragmented across labor categories, facilities, agencies, contracts, and regional labor markets, raising a question…

Sep 25, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Kevin Lewis, Senior Vice President, ProcureMed Alliance
  • Jeff Niles, Executive Vice President, HWL
  • Craig Hershovitz, Executive Vice President, ProcureMed Alliance

Risk adjustment has traditionally lived downstream of the patient visit, reconstructed after the fact through chart review, queries and coding. This session explores what changes when documentation integrity becomes part of the clinical conversation itself, not a separate process layered…

Aug 19, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Eric Bricker, MD, Internal Medicine Physician and former Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Compass Professional Health Services
  • Andrew Miner, MD, Chief Health Informatics Officer, Inova Health
  • Padmanabhan Premkumar, MD, System Senior Vice President and President, Hartford HealthCare Medical Group and CEO of Integrated Care Partners

Roughly 70 percent of medical decisions depend on lab results but lab spending remains one of the least scrutinized lines in a health plan’s budget. That blind spot is getting more expensive. Routine testing spend is climbing faster than the…

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A federal judge has thrown out a False Claims Act lawsuit accusing Sentara Health Plans of fraudulently inflating ACA marketplace premiums in Virginia after multiple large insurer competitors left the market in 2017. Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Dillon found…

A federal judge dismissed most of a class-action lawsuit alleging the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association shared federal employees’ health-related website data with TikTok, Meta, Google and LinkedIn without consent. The lawsuit dates back to 2023. A January 2024 amended…

From regional plans to large, for-profit health insurers, 2026 has marked a year of executive transition. Here are 20 C-suite executives who recently shared plans to leave or transition within their organization: 1. Elevance Health’s Tich Changamire, MD, PhD, is…

Eleven insurers have announced they will stop offering individual ACA marketplace plans, either nationally or in specific states, after the 2026 plan year.  The withdrawals come amid declining enrollment nationwide, rising premiums and the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits…


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