Woodstock, Va.-based Shenandoah Community Health Clinic plans to temporarily suspend its dental services beginning July 1 due to workforce and financial challenges, The Northern Virginia Daily reported June 29. Seven notes: 1. The clinic announced earlier this month that it…
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Integrating technology and AI in the right ways, building around people and continuing to focus on relationships are among the keys to success for dental practices and dental service organizations in the next year. There are endless questions facing dental…
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When clinicians don’t trust clinical decision-support tools, they don’t just ignore them. They spend extra time verifying and correcting AI-generated recommendations undermining productivity and compromising the very quality-of-care gains these tools are meant to deliver. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting,…
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Dental AI company Pearl has released its Oral Health Index, the first radiographic census of American oral health, based on an analysis of more than 26 million dental X-rays across 15 million patients. The index compares findings from Pearl’s radiographic…
A medical office in Warren, Ohio, that houses Modern Dental Concepts has been sold for $575,000, according to a June 28 report from Mahoning Matters. Gursharanjit Singh, DMD, is still leading the practice, which provides services including dental implants, root…
Real-time medication price transparency is no longer a someday ambition. As of 2025, 75 percent of hospitals had integrated real-time prescription benefit information for at least some payers, CMS has required Medicare Part D plans to support these tools since…
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- Christie Callahan, Chief Product Officer, Interra Health
- Lauren Hackenberg, Senior Director, Provider Capabilities, Optum
Scarcity has always shaped healthcare. “Triage” assumes there isn’t enough to treat everyone at the level they need. “Population health” often means concentrating limited resources on the highest-risk sliver of a panel. But a new generation of clinically safe AI voice…
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