The American Board of Dental Examiners plans to integrate the American Dental Association’s exam into its own to help modernize the licensure process. The ADA’s Dental Licensure Objective Structured Clinical Examination is designed to help state dental boards determine whether…
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Las Vegas-based Absolute Dental recently gained preliminary court approval to settle a class-action lawsuit related to its 2025 data breach. Absolute Dental, which has more than 50 locations across Nevada, discovered that an unauthorized party accessed some of its systems…
More than 73% of dentists currently have an adequate number of dental assistants at their practice, according to a new report from the American Dental Association. The ADA recently released its “State of the U.S. economy” report for the first…
Dental industry professionals and other stakeholders called on Pennsylvania lawmakers to expand training and remove barriers to help alleviate workforce shortages in the state. The state Senate Majority Policy Committee held a public hearing April 13 to discuss the impact…
Some of the largest DSOs focused their efforts on practice partnerships, de novo offices and technology investments during the first quarter of 2026. Sixteen updates from the first quarter: Heartland Dental (Effingham, Ill.) 1. Heartland Dental expanded its network with…
The American Dental Association’s Code Maintenance Committee has approved 67 changes to the Current Dental Terminology codes for 2027. The updates include 28 additions, 33 revisions and six editorial updates, according to an April 14 news release. Five notes: 1.…
Healthcare organizations are moving fast on AI — but many are hitting a more fundamental obstacle: their data is not ready to support it. Fragmented records, interoperability gaps and unreliable pipelines mean AI results can be inconsistent, hard to trust…
Jun 30, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM America/Chicago
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Julie Smith
MSHI, NI-BC, CEN Head of Global Healthcare Market Strategy
For a growing share of members, the care journey now begins not with a nurse line or portal, but with AI. Conversational tools are stepping in before a clinician is involved, guiding symptom interpretation and next-step decisions. While this shift…
May 21, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM America/Chicago
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Rachel French
Chief Strategy and Partnerships Officer, MD Live by Evernorth
Here are four dentists who have been disciplined by state dental boards so far this year: 1. The Georgia Board of Dentistry suspended the license of Justin Scott, DMD, on March 2. 2. The Virginia Board of Dentistry denied a…
Two interstate dental compacts are gaining steam across the U.S. as states look for new solutions to alleviate workforce shortages. Here is where the compacts stand as of this year: Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact The Dentist and Dental Hygiene…