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Rural healthcare is under unprecedented strain. Margins are eroding, workforce shortages persist and access continues to contract as service lines close. The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program offers something rare — a once-in-a-generation chance to redesign care delivery instead…

Regulated healthcare environments face constant pressure to keep patient access, registration, documentation, verification, reminders, and exception handling moving without adding administrative burden to frontline teams. In this session, we’ll explore how AI agents can support the “work behind the work”…

Picture the OR board on a typical Monday — blocks held but underused, cases running late, add-ons pushing the schedule past prime time. Many hospitals recognize the pattern. Few have made durable changes to break it. The physician executives in…

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…

The perioperative environment is one of the largest untapped sources of financial and operational improvement in health systems — and most organizations still aren’t capturing it. Unwarranted clinical variation, misaligned supply chain strategy and siloed decision-making quietly erode margins without…

Healthcare organizations are moving fast on AI — but many are hitting a more fundamental obstacle: their data is not ready to support it. Fragmented records, interoperability gaps and unreliable pipelines mean AI results can be inconsistent, hard to trust…

Agentic AI is a board-level priority for most healthcare organizations, but whether you are still identifying where to start or trying to move a stalled pilot forward, the path to measurable results looks the same. This session introduces a practical…

As capital projects move from strategy to reality, delays, unclear costs and compliance complexity can slow progress and strain already limited resources. In this session, we’ll discuss managing growing capital demands with tighter budgets and oversight requirements. It offers a…

Health systems cannot afford fragmented specialty care or missed downstream opportunity. Three years ago, St. Luke’s University Health Network made a deliberate decision to invest in precision medicine as a core enterprise priority. Through its DNA Answers program, the health…

Boston Medical Center faced the same challenge many systems are grappling with: beds staying full longer than necessary because getting patients home safely took too long. BMC turned to AI to transform how teams identify patients ready for home and…