DSOs could continue to face high interest rates and market volatility that will test their financial stability, according to one executive. Ian Mcnickle, the co-founder and CEO of Icon Dental Partners, recently joined Becker’s Dental + DSO Review Podcast to…
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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…
Jul 16, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
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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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Most AI implementations don’t fail because of the technology. They fail because organizations focus on deployment instead of behavior change. Clinicians don’t resist innovation — they resist disruption that doesn’t clearly improve patient care or make their day easier. In…
Jul 30, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Matthew Brown, DSO Partnerships, Dandy
- Dr. Layla Lohmann, Co-Founder and Clinical Director, Apex Dental Partners
My Community Dental Centers, a nonprofit organization that operates dental practices across Michigan, has appointed Steven Hall as its next CEO. Mr. Hall replaces Deborah Brown, DMD, who had served as CEO since 2018 before joining Big Rapids, Mich.-based Ferris…
Waltham, Mass.-based 42 North Dental recently appointed Tracy Ziskovsky as its senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Ms. Ziskovsky has more than 15 years of marketing leadership experience in the healthcare space, including for dental, dermatology, eye care, med…
The American Dental Association is supporting legislation that would establish and expand community-based training opportunities for healthcare professionals. S. 4370, the Primary Care Team Education Centers Act, would establish community-based education centers to train the next generation of health professionals…