Dental practices and DSOs may have to do more than increase compensation in order to get ahead of the industry’s growing dental assistant shortage. Dentalpost’s 2026 “Dental Salary Survey Report” pointed to future challenges with recruiting and retaining dental assistants,…
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The U.S. currently has 7,980 dental professional shortage areas, according to new data from the Health Resources and Services Administration. The HRSA updates its dashboard showing data on health workforce shortage areas Sept. 1. The dashboard shows that 12,656 practitioners…
Roseville, Minn.-based Park Dental Partners is actively investigating a data breach that may have exposed patient information. The DSO identified unauthorized access to its computer network Aug. 28, according to an 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Sept.…
Irving, Texas-based Rodeo Dental & Orthodontics has appointed Lorri Detrick as CEO. Ms. Detrick most recently served as the president and COO of Riccobene Associates Family Dentistry, a DSO with more than 70 locations in three states. She is a…
Here are four dental practice and clinic closures that have taken place since July: 1. A free dental clinic in Youngstown, Ohio, closed after Choffin Career & Technical Center paused its dental assisting program due to low enrollment. 2. Cuddle…
A national healthcare organization operating more than 100 hospitals spent one day examining how it requests, approves and pays for locum tenens coverage. The exercise required no extra spend and produced five recommendations. Leaders had reason to look. Locum tenens…
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The University of California San Francisco has selected Suffolk and CO Architects to complete its $278 million dental school project. The Mission Bay Education Center and Dental Clinics project includes new educational, clinical and research spaces for the UCSF School…
As clinical AI moves from isolated deployments to enterprise infrastructure, health system leaders face a more consequential question: which technologies deliver meaningful value today while continuing to evolve with the needs of the enterprise? Health systems must assess whether the…
Sep 29, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Stephon Proctor, Associate Chief Health Informatics Officer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Jill Reeves, Vice President of Quality, Baylor Scott & White
- Nadim Ilbawi, MD, Vice President, Clinical Success & Strategy, Abridge
Query volume and documentation accuracy are supposed to move together. At one West Virginia University Health System hospital, they moved in opposite directions: hospitalist queries fell 30% in 2025 compared with 2024, while severity capture improved. That happened because WVU…
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Here are six dentists who are leading new practices: 1. Modern Micro Endodontics opened its ninth practice in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., following an ownership transition from Anthony Fasciano, DMD. Tara Mahpour, DMD, will join Vivian Graham, DDS, at the new…