When AI investments fail to pay off, the problem is not lack of interest or excitement. It is the challenge of integrating AI into clinical workflows, building governance structures and earning clinician trust. Radiology offers a clearer path forward. Nearly…
Presented by:
Compounding barriers to accessing oral healthcare among older adults has become a large issue in dentistry that many people may not be paying enough attention to, according to two leaders in the field. Caitlin Walker, manager of the Delta Dental…
Hampshire Meadow Family & Pediatric Dentistry in Hadley, Mass., has held a grand opening for its new location, according to a May 2 report from the Daily Hampshire Gazette. The 4,600-square-foot facility cost about $3.5 million including construction, new equipment…
The first round of refund checks has been sent out to former patients of a now-closed dental practice in Woodbury, Minn. Woodbury Dental Arts, led by Marko Kamel, DDS, closed in March 2024 after the practice “ran out of money,”…
North Carolina legislators are considering a bill that would change how members are appointed to the state dental board. The North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners is currently made up of six members, all of whom are selected by…
Every missed or under-documented diagnosis — malnutrition, pressure injuries, respiratory failure — costs hospitals an average of $10,000 in reimbursement per patient, while quietly inflating length of stay and readmission rates. Across a health system, these gaps compound into a…
Presented by:
Jason Cohen, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Inpatient Qventus
Katie Saindon
Senior Director of Product Management Qventus
Hospitals spent $43 billion in 2025 chasing payments insurers already owed them. Payer tactics have grown more sophisticated, more automated and harder to detect — and many of the most financially damaging losses, including DRG downgrades, never trigger a formal…
Presented by:
Tami Knobbe
EVP, CorroHealth
Anne Robertucci, MS, RHIA
Vice President, Clinical Revenue Cycle Prisma Health
Rebekah May, MBA, MSN, RN
CDI Director, Clinical Revenue Cycle The University of Kansas Health System
Penny Jefferson
Director, Clinical Documentation Integrity Services University of California Davis Medical Center
Richard Nagengast
Vice President, PB Revenue Cycle Mount Sinai Health System
Many hospitals still rely on generic clinical risk scores to flag high-risk patients. The challenge: those scores aren’t built to map to how CMS Star Ratings, HRRP, VBP and Leapfrog measure performance — which means quality improvement effort can be…
Presented by:
Nik Rao
CEO, Dexur
Most physicians spend about one-third of their working hours in the EHR and on administrative tasks — time that comes directly out of patient interaction, judgment work and recovery between cases. AI is starting to shift that calculus, but for…
Presented by:
The dental hygiene program at Cabrillo College in Aptos, Calif., has been placed on probation after a visit from the state hygiene board, Santa Cruz Local reported April 30. Five notes: 1. Cabrillo College’s dental hygiene program is the only…
