DSO affiliation among U.S. dentists has more than doubled since 2015 — from 7.2% to 16.1% — as practice ownership has dropped to a 20-year low of 73%, according to TUSK Practice Sales’ Q4 2026 Dental Market Report. Eight notes…
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Only 35% of OhioHealth patients with diabetes were completing recommended eye tests. To close that gap, the health system integrated FDA-cleared autonomous AI testing directly into primary care visits and Epic workflows, allowing patients to receive results before leaving the…
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Several dental practices and clinics have closed or announced plans to close over the last few weeks. Six updates: 1. Hoffman Stone, a dental practice in Springfield, Mo., closed abruptly, leaving patients and employees without answers. 2. Seaport Dental Center…
Chronic disease can develop for years before diagnosis, yet many risk calculators rely on decades-old patient cohorts and a single snapshot of a patient’s health. Researchers at Meir Medical Center, part of Clalit Health Services, retrained cardiovascular and Type 2…
Nov 9, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
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- Guy Leitersdorf, Founder & CEO, Longevity AI
- Dr. Ariel Soffer, M.D., F.A.C.C, Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Board Certified Cardiovascular Specialist
- Dr. Liat Barzilay-Yoseph, M.D., Specialist in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology Head of the Obesity and Diabetes Unit, Meir' Medical Center, Israel
CJR-X arrives January 1, 2028, moving the financial risk for hip, knee and ankle replacement episodes onto hospitals. Many of the decisions that shape those costs, though, happen well beyond the hospital’s walls. To help operations leaders get ahead of…
Nov 18, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
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- Paul Bruning, DHA, Division Administrative Director, Sports Medicine, Hand, and the Sports Sciences Institute, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine
- Matt Civili, Executive Director, Signature Medical Group
- Prakash “PJ” Jayakumar, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Director of Value Based Health Care and Outcome Measurement Innovations, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin
- Breanna Cunningham, Founder and CEO, CODE Technology
AI spending in healthcare nearly tripled between 2024 and 2025, reaching $1.4 billion, and roughly three in four US health systems now use at least one AI application. But for most organizations, this first wave automated isolated tasks without moving…
Nov 10, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
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- David Sides, Chief Executive Officer, Ventra Health
- Erica Franko, EVP and Chief Operating Officer, Ventra Health
Shen Smiles, a dental practice in Tamaqua, Pa., has agreed to pay $140,000 in a settlement with HHS to resolve potential HIPAA violations. The HHS Office for Civil Rights launched an investigation after receiving a complaint that the practice failed…
A dentist in Galena, Ill., has retired after more than four decades in dentistry, according to an Oct. 13 report from Galena Gazette. Robert Chorak, DDS, purchased a dental practice in 1981. He sold his practice in 2019 to Anna…
Health plans rely on clinical data to improve quality, manage risk, coordinate care, and support analytics and AI. But that data arrives from multiple sources, in different formats, and through a variety of exchange methods.Choosing the right clinical data repository…
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When the START Center for Cancer Care hit the ceiling on infusion capacity, the obvious fix was also the most expensive: build more space. Two high-volume infusion centers were straining against their limits, with one nearly out of room to…
Nov 16, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
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- Elizabeth Cavanaugh, RN, MSN, Director of Clinical Services, The START Center for Cancer Care San Antonio, Texas